John 12:2-4

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²A meal had been prepared for Jesus. Martha was doing the serving, and Lazarus himself was there.

³^(A) Mary took a very expensive bottle of perfume^[a] and poured it on Jesus' feet. She wiped them with her hair, and the sweet smell of the perfume filled the house.

⁴A disciple named Judas Iscariot^[b] was there. He was the one who was going to betray Jesus, and he asked,

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Footnotes

12.3 very expensive bottle of perfume: The Greek text has “expensive perfume made of pure spikenard,” a plant used to make perfume.
12.4 Iscariot: See the note at 6.71.