John 12:6

But he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the purse, and took what was put in it.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

This 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.

In Context

5Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?

7Then Jesus said: Let her alone; she has kept this for the day of my burial.

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Cross References

Matthew 21:13and said to them: It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer; but you have made it a den of robbers.

John 10:13The hireling flees because he is a hireling, and cares not for the sheep.

1 Corinthians 6:10nor thieves, nor defrauders, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Matthew Henry on John 12:2-12

Mary Anoints Christ's Feet; Hypocrisy of Judas; Indignation of the Chief Priests. 1 Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. 2 There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him. 3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment. 4 Then… Read the whole commentary →

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