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Therefore Mary took a pound[a] of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed Jesus’s feet and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment. Then Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, one of his disciples, who would betray him, said, “Why wasn’t this ointment sold for three hundred denarii,[b] and given to the poor?”

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Footnotes

  1. 12:3 a Roman pound of 12 ounces, or about 340 grams
  2. 12:5 300 denarii was about a year’s wages for an agricultural laborer.