|<< John 12 >>| English Revised Version Jesus Anointed by Mary
(Matthew 26:6-13; Mark 14:3-9) 1Jesus therefore six days before
the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus
raised from the dead. 2So they made him a supper there: and
Martha served; but Lazarus was one of them that sat at meat with
him. 3Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of spikenard, very
precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet
with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the
ointment. 4But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, which
should betray him, saith, 5Why was not this ointment sold for
three hundred pence, and given to the poor? 6Now this he said,
not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief,
and having the bag took away what was put therein. 7Jesus
therefore said, Suffer her to keep it against the day of my
burying. 8For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have
not always. The Plot to Kill Lazarus 9The common people
therefore of the Jews learned that he wa