“For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me” (v. 8), certainly does not mean that he was discouraging his followers from helping the poor.7 Rather, Jesus was saying that the events of those days were particularly significant; and, considering them, this anointing was entirely appropriate. Judas’s betrayal, which was motivated in part by greed, explains Jesus’s warning, “Watch out and be on guard against all greed, because one’s life is not in the abundance of his possessions” (Luke