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Then Mary, having taken a pound of very-valuable genuine[a] nard perfume, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair. And the house was filled from the aroma of the perfume. But Judas the Iscariot— one of His disciples, the one going to hand Him over— says, “For what reason was this perfume not sold for three-hundred denarii[b] and given to poor ones?”

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Footnotes

  1. John 12:3 See Mk 14:3.
  2. John 12:5 One denarius was one day’s wage for a laborer.

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