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John 12
² So they made Him a supper there, and Martha was serving; but Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with Him.
³ Mary then took a pound of very costly perfume of pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
⁴ But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, who was intending to betray Him, *said,
⁵ "Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and given to poor people?"
⁶ Now he said this, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief, and as he had the money box, he used to pilfer what was put into it.
⁷ Therefore Jesus said, "Let her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of My burial.
⁸ For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me."
⁹ The large crowd of the Jews then learned that He was there; and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He raised from the dead.
¹⁰ But the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death also;
¹¹ because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and were believing in Jesus.
¹² On the next day the large crowd who had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,