When Jesus knew it, he said unto them,
Why trouble you the woman? for she has worked a good work unto me.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
But the disciples not knowing her purpose found fault unseasonably, and by the things they laid to her charge, they show the woman's munificence. For saying, that it might have been sold for three hundred pence, they showed how much this woman had spent on the ointment, and how great generosity she had manifested. Wherefore He also rebuked them, saying, Why trouble ye the woman?
