The Scriptures 1998

John 12:5-10 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

5. “Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred pieces of silver and given to the poor?”

6. And he said this, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and he used to take what was put in it.

7. יהושע then said, “Let her alone, she has kept this for the day of My burial.

8. “For the poor you have with you always, but Me you do not have always.”

9. Then a great crowd of the Yehuḏim learned that He was there. And they came, not on account of יהושע only, but also to see El‛azar, whom He had raised from the dead.

10. And the chief priests resolved to kill El‛azar as well,