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Mary took a liter of costly perfumed oil made from genuine aromatic nard and anointed the feet of Jesus[a] and dried them with her hair; the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.(A) Then Judas the Iscariot, one [of] his disciples, and the one who would betray him, said, “Why was this oil not sold for three hundred days’ wages[b] and given to the poor?”

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Footnotes

  1. 12:3 The feet of Jesus: so Mk 14:3; but in Mt 26:6, Mary anoints Jesus’ head as a sign of regal, messianic anointing.
  2. 12:5 Days’ wages: literally, “denarii.” A denarius is a day’s wage in Mt 20:2; see note on Jn 6:7.