Then Mary took a pound of fragrant oil—pure and expensive nard—anointed Jesus’ feet, and wiped His feet with her hair.(A) So the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.

Then one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot(B) (who was about to betray Him), said, “Why wasn’t this fragrant oil sold for 300 denarii[a](C) and given to the poor?”

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Footnotes

  1. John 12:5 This amount was about a year’s wages for a common worker.

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