1

Jesus therefore six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus raised from the dead.

2

So they made him a supper there: and Martha served but Lazarus was one of them that sat at meat with him.

3

Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment.

4

But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, that should betray him, saith,

5

Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred shillings, and given to the poor?

6

Now this he said, not because he cared for the poor but because he was a thief, and having the bag took away what was put therein.

7

Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to keep it against the day of my burying.

8

For the poor ye have always with you but me ye have not always.