For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
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12 For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
38 And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
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Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?