6and he said this, not because he was caring for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and what things were put in he was carrying.


In Context

3 Mary, therefore, having taken a pound of ointment of spikenard, of great price, anointed the feet of Jesus and did wipe with her hair his feet, and the house was filled from the fragrance of the ointment.

4 Therefore saith one of his disciples — Judas Iscariot, of Simon, who is about to deliver him up —

5 'Wherefore was not this ointment sold for three hundred denaries, and given to the poor?'

6 and he said this, not because he was caring for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and what things were put in he was carrying.

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

8 for the poor ye have always with yourselves, and me ye have not always.'

John 12:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:6This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

12:6He 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:6Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and having the purse, carried the things that were put therein.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:6Now this he said, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and having the bag took away what was put therein.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:6But he said this, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and had the bag, and carried what was put into it.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:6Now this he said, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and having the bag took away what was put therein.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:6This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bore what was put in it.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:6Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:6This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bore what was put therein.