^{2 Ref} So they made him a meal there, and he was waited on by Martha, and Lazarus was among those who were seated with him at table.

^{3 Ref} Then Mary, taking a pound of perfumed oil of great value, put it on the feet of Jesus and made them dry with her hair: and the house became full of the smell of the perfume.

^{4 Ref} But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot (who was to give him up), said,

^{5 Ref} Why was not this perfume traded for three hundred pence, and the money given to the poor?

^{6 Ref} (He said this, not because he had any love for the poor; but because he was a thief, and, having the money-bag, took for himself what was put into it.)

^{7 Ref} Then Jesus said, Let her be. Let her keep what she has for the day of my death.

^{8 Ref} The poor you have ever with you, but me you have not for ever.