Scriptures

New King James Version (NKJV)

John 12
³ Then Mary took a pound of very costly oil of spikenard, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.
⁴ Then one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, who would betray Him, said,
⁵ "Why was this fragrant oil not sold for three hundred denarii 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 money box; and he used to take what was put in it.
⁷ But Jesus said, "Let her alone; she has kept this for the day of My burial.
⁸ For the poor you have with you always, but Me you do not have always."
⁹ Now a great many of the Jews knew that He was there; and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.
¹⁰ But the chief priests plotted to put Lazarus to death also,
¹¹ because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.
¹² The next day a great multitude that had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
¹³ took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him, and cried out: "Hosanna! ’Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ The King of Israel!"