7"Leave her alone," Jesus replied. "It was intended that she should save this perfume for the day of my burial.


In Context

4 But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him, objected,

5 "Why wasn't this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year's wages. "

6 He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put into it.

7 "Leave her alone," Jesus replied. "It was intended that she should save this perfume for the day of my burial.

8 You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me."

9 Meanwhile a large crowd of Jews found out that Jesus was there and came, not only because of him but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

John 12:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:7Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:7Jesus therefore said: Let her alone, that she may keep it against the day of my burial.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:7Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to keep it against the day of my burying.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:7Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to have kept this for the day of my preparation for burial;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:7Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to keep it against the day of my burying.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:7Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burial hath she kept this.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:7But Jesus said, |Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

12:7Jesus, therefore, said, 'Suffer her; for the day of my embalming she hath kept it,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:7Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying has she kept this.