WEEK 48 | MONDAY | JOHN 12.1-11

This week’s readings are all from John chapter 12. Click here to see a full listing of each day’s reading and the full chapters for this week. Full readings of each day’s smaller segments of the readings will be posted on this site during the week.

Today’s Reading

Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom he had raised from the dead. ² So they prepared a dinner for Jesus there. Martha was serving, and Lazarus was among those present at the table with him. ³ Then Mary took three quarters of a pound of expensive aromatic oil from pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus. She then wiped his feet dry with her hair. (Now the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfumed oil.) ⁴ But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was going to betray him) said, ⁵ “Why wasn’t this oil sold for 300 silver coins and the money given to the poor?” ⁶ (Now Judas said this not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money box, he used to steal what was put into it.) ⁷ So Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She has kept it for the day of my burial. ⁸ For you will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me!”

⁹ Now a large crowd of Judeans learned that Jesus was there, and so they came not only because of him but also to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead. ¹⁰ So the chief priests planned to kill Lazarus too, ¹¹ for on account of him many of the Jewish people from Jerusalem were going away and believing in Jesus.

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