For this perfumed oil could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor!” And they began to scold[a] her. But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you cause trouble for her? She has done a good deed to me. For the poor you always have with you, and you can do good for them whenever you want, but you do not always have me.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 14:5 The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to scold”)