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For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii,[a] and given to the poor.” So they grumbled against her.

But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me. For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.

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Footnotes

  1. 14:5 300 denarii was about a year’s wages for an agricultural laborer.