“Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “It was intended that she should save this perfume for the day of my burial.(A) You will always have the poor among you,[a](B) but you will not always have me.”

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  1. John 12:8 See Deut. 15:11.

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

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

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But Jesus said, “Let her alone; [a]she has kept this for the day of My burial. For (A)the poor you have with you always, but Me you do not have always.”

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  1. John 12:7 NU that she may keep