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“Why wasn’t this perfume sold for 300 denarii[a] and the money[b] given to the destitute?” He said this, not because he cared about the destitute, but because he was a thief. He was in charge of the moneybag and would steal what was put into it.

Then Jesus said, “Leave her alone so she can observe the day of my burial,

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Footnotes

  1. John 12:5 Three hundred denarii was about a year’s wages for a laborer.
  2. John 12:5 The Gk. lacks the money