“Why wasn’t this oil sold for three hundred silver coins and the money given to the poor?”

For you will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me!”

(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.)

Some thought that, because Judas had the money box, Jesus was telling him to buy whatever they needed for the feast, or to give something to the poor.)