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Then Mary took about a pint[a] of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus’ feet and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
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But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him, objected,
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“Why wasn’t this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year’s wages.[b] ”
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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, he used to help himself to what was put into it.
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“Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “It was intended that she should save this perfume for the day of my burial.
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You will always have the poor among you,[c]but you will not always have me.”