John 12:7
“Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.”
Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and they came not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
Cross-References
“And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.”
“For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.”
“For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.”
“She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.”
“For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.”