John 12:7 WEB

⁵  'Why wasn't this ointment sold for three hundred denarii,{300 denarii was about a year's wages for an agricultural laborer.} and given to the poor?'

⁶  Now 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.

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

⁸  For you always have the poor with you, but you don't always have me.'

⁹  A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned that he was there, and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.