For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii[a] and (A)given to the poor.” And they (B)scolded her. But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. For (C)you always have the poor with you, and whenever (D)you want, you can do good for them. But (E)you will not always have me.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 14:5 A denarius was a day's wage for a laborer

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