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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
Judas, being covetous, did not approve of such a manner of care. "Why," he says as it were, "did you bring not money, from which I could steal, but myrrh?"
Western Saints
Ambrose of Milan
O traitor Judas, you value the ointment of his passion at three hundred pence, and you sell his passion at thirty pence. Rich in valuing, cheap in wickedness!
Thomas Aquinas
Then he gives the traitor's words, from which we see that he had died spiritually from the aroma of the ointment, according to: "For we are the aroma of Christ, to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life" (2 Cor 2:15). Judas was displeased because the ointment was not sold but poured out as an act of homage to Christ. Thus Judas says, Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii? …
Bonaventure
Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor? Matthew twenty-six: "To what purpose is this waste? For it could have been sold for much and given to the poor." And because he seemed to have said this out of piety, the Evangelist shows that he said this out of cupidity.
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