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This perfume could have been sold for much money and given to poor people.” They spoke against her.

Jesus said, “Let her alone. Why are you giving her trouble? She has done a good thing to Me. You will have poor people with you all the time. Whenever you want, you can do something good for them. You will not have Me all the time.

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It could have been sold for more than a year’s wages[a] and the money given to the poor.” And they rebuked her harshly.

“Leave her alone,” said Jesus. “Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. The poor you will always have with you,[b] and you can help them any time you want.(A) But you will not always have me.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 14:5 Greek than three hundred denarii
  2. Mark 14:7 See Deut. 15:11.