For it might have been sold for more than [a]three hundred pence, and been given unto the poor, and they murmured against her.

But Jesus said, Let her alone: Why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.

[b]For ye have the poor with you always, and when ye will ye may do them good, but me ye shall not have always.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 14:5 Which is about six pounds English.
  2. Mark 14:7 Christ suffered himself to be anointed once or twice for certain considerations: but his will is to be daily anointed in the poor.

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