John 12:3-8 ▼

3 Mary, therefore, having taken a pound of ointment of pure spikenard, very costly, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment.

4 But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, who was about to betray Him, says,

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

6 And he said this, not because he cared about the poor; but because he was a thief; and, having the money-box, he was wont to carry what was put therein .

7 Jesus, therefore, said, "Suffer her to keep it for the day of My burial;

8 for the poor ye always have with you, but Me ye have not always."