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Ointment » Not sacred
And when he was at Bethany, and was reclining at the house of Simon the leper, a woman came, having a vase of ointment of genuine nard, extremely costly, and breaking the vase she poured it out on his head. And some were displeased, [and said] to themselves, Why was this waste of the ointment? For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii [$42] and given to the poor; and they blamed her.
Then Mary taking a pound of genuine nard, very costly, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hairs. And the house was filled with the odor of the ointment. But the Iscariot, one of his disciples, who was about to betray him, said, Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred denarii [$42], and given to the poor?