A moment in scripture
John 12:4
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Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, which should betray him,
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The surrounding passage
- John 12:2
There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.
- John 12:3
Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
- John 12:5
Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
- John 12:6
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.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.