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Then Mary took about twelve ounces[a] of very expensive perfume (pure nard) and anointed Jesus’ feet and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was going to betray him, said, “Why wasn’t this perfume sold for three hundred denarii[b] and given to the poor?”

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Footnotes

  1. John 12:3 Greek litra is the Roman pound (327.45 grams or 11.55 ounces, by weight).
  2. John 12:5 Or three hundred days’ wages. A denarius was worth about one day’s wage.