betray Him", asks “Why was this fragrant oil not sold for three hundred denarii () and the money given to poor people (or the poor)?” The New International Version, New King James Version and New Living Translation all equate this amount to a year's wages. In the oil is also valued at three hundred denarii; in it could have been sold for "a high (but unspecified) price". H W Watkins computes that, since in , two hundred denarii would purchase food for 5,000, three hundred denarii would have fed 7,500 people. John's Gospel is the only one which observes that Judas was responsible for the disciples' "common fund" or "money box", both here in verse 6 and again in . The word το γλωσσοκομον (glōssokomon) "means literally "a case for mouthpieces" of musical instruments, and hence any portable chest. It occurs in the Septuagint texts of . Verse 7 But Jesus said, “Let her alone; she has kept this for the day of My burial. The New Revised Standard Version, differing from other translations, reads "She bought it so that she might keep it for the day of my burial". The plot to kill Lazarus (12:9–11) A great many of the Jews came to Bethany, "not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead. The wording of verse 9 suggests that Jesus remains a while in the town. But the chief priests plotted to put Lazarus to death also, because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus" (). Augustine comments on "the folly of the priests — as if Christ could not raise Lazarus a second time!" The plot to put Lazarus to death may be read alongside the developing plot to kill Jesus (; ) as if there were parallel plots "to kill Lazarus as well as Jesus", or even to kill Lazarus first - as Albert Barnes suggests: "as it was determined to kill Jesus, so they consulted about the propriety of removing Lazarus first, that the number of his followers might be lessened, and that the death of Jesus might make less commotion". But the observation that "on account of [Lazarus] many of the Jews went away (from the Pharisees) and believed in Jesus () could indicate that in the early church Lazarus was influential in converting many Jews to