John 12:1–11

¹Jesus, therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where was Lazarus, who had died, whom he raised out of the dead; ²they made, therefore, to him a supper there, and Martha was ministering, and Lazarus was one of those reclining together (at meat) with him; ³Mary, therefore, having taken a pound of ointment of spikenard, of great price, anointed the feet of Jesus and did wipe with her hair his feet, and the house was filled from the fragrance of the ointment. ⁴Therefore saith one of his disciples—Judas Iscariot, of Simon, who is about to deliver him up— ⁵‘Wherefore was not this ointment sold for three hundred denaries, and given to the poor?’ ⁶and he said this, not because he was caring for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and what things were put in he was carrying. ⁷Jesus, therefore, said, ‘Suffer her; for the day of my embalming she hath kept it, ⁸for the poor ye have always with yourselves, and me ye have not always.’ ⁹A great multitude, therefore, of the Jews knew that he is there, and they came, not because of Jesus only, but that Lazarus also they may see, whom he raised out of the dead; ¹⁰and the chief priests took counsel, that also Lazarus they may kill, ¹¹because on account of him many of the Jews were going away, and were believing in Jesus.