“Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred [a]denarii and the proceeds given to poor people?” Now he said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and as he (A)kept the money box, he used to [b]steal from (B)what was put into it. Therefore Jesus said, “Leave her alone, so that she may keep it [c]for (C)the day of My burial.

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Footnotes

  1. John 12:5 The denarius was a day’s wages for a laborer
  2. John 12:6 Lit pilfer
  3. John 12:7 Or in view of

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