^{The Holy Bible}

^Douay-Rheims

John 12: 1 – 9

¹Jesus therefore, six days before the pasch, came to Bethania, where Lazarus had been dead, whom Jesus raised to life. ²And they made him a supper there: and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that were at table with him. ³Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of right spikenard, of great price, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment. ⁴Then one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, he that was about to betray him, said: ⁵Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? ⁶Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and having the purse, carried the things that were put therein. ⁷Jesus therefore said: Let her alone, that she may keep it against the day of my burial. ⁸For the poor you have always with you; but me you have not always. ⁹A great multitude therefore of the Jews knew that he was there; and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.