Daily Discovery Bible Study

1 Six days before the Passover, Jesus went to Bethany, to the home of Lazarus who had been raised from the dead.2 There a dinner was arranged in his honor. Martha helped serve the food while Lazarus sat at the table with Jesus and the other guests.3 Mary brought a pint of pure nard perfume and anointed Jesus' feet, wiping them dry with her hair. The scent of the perfume filled the whole house.

4 But one of the disciples, Judas Iscariot, who would later betray Jesus, asked,5 “Why wasn't this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth three hundred denarii.”

6 He wasn't saying this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief. He was the one who looked after the disciples' money and he often took some for himself.

7 “Don't criticize her,” Jesus replied. “She did this in preparation for the day of my burial.8 You'll always have the poor with you, but you won't always have me here.”

John 12: 1-8