1. Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom He had raised from the dead.
2. They prepared a supper for Him there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with Him.
3. Then Mary took a pint of very costly ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.
4. But one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, who would betray Him, said,
5. “Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?”
6. He said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief. And having the money box, he used to steal what was put in it.
7. But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of My burial.
8. For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me.”
9. When many of the Jews learned that He was there, they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.
10. So the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death also,
11. because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.
12. On the next day a great crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.