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Then Miriam took a pound[a] of very expensive oil of pure nard and anointed Yeshua’s feet, and she wiped His feet dry with her hair. Now the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.

But Judah from Kriot, one of His disciples, the one who was about to betray Him, said, “Why wasn’t this oil sold for three hundred denarii[b] and the money given to the poor?”

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Footnotes

  1. John 12:3 a Roman pound, about 12 ounces.
  2. John 12:5 One denarius was the daily wage for a laborer.