5. For this ointment might have been sold for above three hundred pence, and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
6. But Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
7. For ye have the poor always with you, and whensoever ye will ye can do them good: but me ye have not always.
8. She hath done what she could: she hath anointed my body aforehand for the burying.