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Then Mary took a pint[a] of very costly ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.

But one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, who would betray Him, said, “Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii[b] and given to the poor?”

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Footnotes

  1. John 12:3 Gk. a litra, or half a liter.
  2. John 12:5 About a year’s wages.