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“Why wasn’t this ointment sold for three hundred denarii,[a] and given to the poor?” Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it. But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial.

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Footnotes

  1. 12:5 300 denarii was about a year’s wages for an agricultural laborer.