John 12:1-8

Jubilee Bible 2000

12 ¶ Jesus, therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where Lazarus was who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.

² There they made him a supper; and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those that sat at the table with him.

³ Then Mary took a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

⁴ Then said one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, who should betray him,

⁵ Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarius and given to the poor?

⁶ This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and had the bag and would take from what was put therein.

⁷ Therefore Jesus said, Let her alone; against the day of my burying she has kept this;

⁸ for the poor ye always have with you, but ye shall not always have me.