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Ask a Question"Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?"
But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (he who was about to betray him), said,
For the poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me."
Jesus said, "Leave her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of my burial.
Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.
So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table.
Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
She shall pursue her loversbut not overtake them,and she shall seek thembut shall not find them.Then she shall say,'I will go and return to my first husband,for it was better for me then than now.'
He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it.