KJV King James Version
Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
“Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “She has kept this perfume in preparation for the day of My burial.
But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial.
Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to keep it against the day of my burying.
Jesus, therefore, said, ‘Suffer her; for the day of my embalming she hath kept it,
4 Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s [son], which should betray him,
5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
7 Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
8 For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
9 Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and they came not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
10 But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;
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