John 12:5

In context

3Then Mary took a pound of pure nard, a costly perfume, anointed the feet of Jesus, and dried his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. 4But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples — the one who was going to betray him — said, 5“Why wasn’t this perfume sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?” 6He said this not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief: he kept the money box, and he used to help himself to what was put into it. 7Jesus said, “Leave her alone; she has kept it for the day of my burial.