“It could have been sold for a year’s wages[a] and the money given to the poor!” So they scolded her harshly.

But Jesus replied, “Leave her alone. Why criticize her for doing such a good thing to me? You will always have the poor among you, and you can help them whenever you want to. But you will not always have me.

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Footnotes

  1. 14:5 Greek for 300 denarii. A denarius was equivalent to a laborer’s full day’s wage.

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