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John 12:7
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5 “Why was this fragrant oil not sold for1 three hundred denarii and given to the poor?”  
6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and ahad the money box; and he used to take what was put in it.  
7 But Jesus said, “Let her alone;1 she has kept this for the day of My burial.  
8 For athe poor you have with you always, but Me you do not have always.”  

The Plot to Kill Lazarus

9 Now a great many of the Jews knew that He was there; and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, awhom He had raised from the dead.  
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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John 12:7

Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this - Several MSS. and versions read thus: - , ̔ ̔ ͅ - Let her alone, That she may keep it to the day of my embalming. This is the reading of BDLQ, four others, Arabic, Coptic, Ethiopic, Armenian, later Syriac in the margin, Slavonic, Vulgate, all the Itala but one; Nonnus, Ambrosius, Gaudentius, and Augustin. This reading, which has the approbation of Mill, Bengel, Griesbach, Pearce, and others, intimates that only a part of the ointment was then used, and that the rest was kept till the time that the women came to embalm the body of Jesus: Luke 24:1. See the notes on Matthew 26:12, Matthew 26:13.


 
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