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John 12:7

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

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  1. John 12:5

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

  2. 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.

  3. John 12:8

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

  4. John 12:9

    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.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.