NASB
""Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and given to poor people?""
— John 12:5, NASB
“Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?”
“Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred shillings, and given to the poor? ”
“"Why wasn't this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?"”
““Why wasn’t this oil sold for three hundred silver coins and the money given to the poor?””
“Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence and given to the poor?”
“Why was not this perfume traded for three hundred pence, and the money given to the poor?”
“Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?”
So they made Him a supper there, and Martha was serving; but Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with Him.
Mary then took a pound of very costly perfume of pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, who was intending to betray Him, *said,
"Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and given to poor people?"
Now he said this, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief, and as he had the money box, he used to pilfer what was put into it.
Therefore Jesus said, "Let her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of My burial.
"For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me."