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Then Mary took a twelve-ounce jar[a] of expensive perfume made from essence of nard, and she anointed Jesus’ feet with it, wiping his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance.

But Judas Iscariot, the disciple who would soon betray him, said, “That perfume was worth a year’s wages.[b] It should have been sold and the money given to the poor.” Not that he cared for the poor—he was a thief, and since he was in charge of the disciples’ money, he often stole some for himself.

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Footnotes

  1. 12:3 Greek took 1 litra [327 grams].
  2. 12:5 Greek worth 300 denarii. A denarius was equivalent to a laborer’s full day’s wage.

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