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But he said this not because it mattered to him about haAniyim, but because he was a ganav and he was removing what was put in the aron otzaram (chest of treasury).

Therefore Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Let her alone. She kept this for the Yom HaKevurah (Day of Burial) of me [Isa 53:9].

For haAniyim you have always with you, but you do not always have me. [DEVARIM 15:11]

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He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag,(A) he used to help himself to what was put into it.

“Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “It was intended that she should save this perfume for the day of my burial.(B) You will always have the poor among you,[a](C) but you will not always have me.”

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Footnotes

  1. John 12:8 See Deut. 15:11.