5. Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
6. Now this he said, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and having the bag took away what was put therein.
7. Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to keep it against the day of my burying.
8. For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.
9. The common people therefore of the Jews learned 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 took counsel that they might put Lazarus also to death;
11. because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.