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“Why was this perfume not sold for [a]three hundred denarii and [the money] given to the poor?” Now he said this, not because he cared about the poor [for he had never cared about them], but because he was a thief; and since he had the money box [serving as treasurer for the twelve disciples], he used to pilfer what was put into it. So Jesus said, “Let her alone, so that she may keep [the rest of] it for the day of My burial.

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Footnotes

  1. John 12:5 I.e. about a year’s wages for an ordinary workman.

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