Traces
Judas and Mary of Bethany
How Judas and Mary of Bethany are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Judas and Mary of Bethany met.
Judas objected to the ointment Mary poured on the feet of Jesus, saying it should have been sold for the poor. John says he cared not for the poor but was a thief.
Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
John 12:5, King James Version
not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief
John 12:6, King James Version
Where they cross: John 12:3-6
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
John 12:3-6
3Then 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.
4Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, which should betray him,
5Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
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.
King James Version