John 12:5

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3. 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.

4. John 12:4

   Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, which should betray him,

6. 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.

7. John 12:7

   Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.

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