mnt - John:12:1-11

mnt@John:12:1 @ So then Jesus came six days before the Passover, to Bethany, where Lazarus was whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

mnt@John:12:2 @ So they gave a dinner for him there, and Martha served it; but Lazarus was one of those who reclined with him at table.

mnt@John:12:3 @ Then Mary took a pound of pure spikenard, very costly, and poured it over his feet, and wiped his feet with her hair, and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

mnt@John:12:4 @ Then said Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, who was about to betray him,

mnt@John:12:5 @ "Why was not this perfume sold for fifty dollars, and the proceeds given to the poor?"

mnt@John:12:6 @ This he said not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and, carrying the purse,

mnt@John:12:7 @ used to purloin what was put in it. Then said Jesus. "Let her alone. Against the day of my burial has she kept this;

mnt@John:12:8 @ for the poor you have with you always, but me you have not always."

mnt@John:12:9 @ When the great mass of the Jews learned that Jesus was there, they came not alone because of Jesus, but to see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.

mnt@John:12:10 @ And the chief priests plotted to kill Lazarus too,

mnt@John:12:11 @ because it was on his account that many of the Jews were leaving them, and beginning to believe on Jesus.