Orthodox Jewish Bible

Yochanan 12:3-12 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

3. Then Miryam, having taken a pound of mishcha (ointment) of expensive genuine spikenard, anointed the feet of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and wiped off with her hair his feet. And the bais was filled with the aroma of the mishcha.

4. And Yehuda from K'riot, one of the talmidim of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, the talmid being about to betray him, says

5. Why was this mishcha not sold for three hundred denarii and given to haAniyim (the Poor)?

6. But he said this not because it mattered to him about haAniyim, but because he was a ganav and he was removing what was put in the aron otzaram (chest of treasury).

7. Therefore Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Let her alone. She kept this for the Yom HaKevurah (Day of Burial) of me [Isa 53:9].

8. For haAniyim you have always with you, but you do not always have me. [DEVARIM 15:11]

9. When the great multitude of the Yehudim had da'as of where Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was, they came not only because of him, but also because of El'azar, that they may see the one whom he made to stand up alive from the mesim.

10. But the Rashei Hakohanim took counsel that they also might kill El'azar,

11. Because many of the Yehudim were leaving and believing in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach on account of El'azar.

12. On the next day the great multitude, the one having come to the Chag (Feast), having heard that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach is coming to Yerushalayim,