John 12:6 - Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Now he said this, not out of concern for the needy, but because he was a thief and, since he held the purse, he used to carry what was put into it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Now he did not say this because he cared for the poor but because he was a thief; and having the bag (the money box, the purse of the Twelve), he took for himself what was put into it [pilfering the collections].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ Now this he said, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and having the bag took away what was put therein.

Common English Bible

⁶ He said this not because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief. He carried the money bag and would take what was in it.)

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and having the purse, carried the things that were put therein.

English Standard Version 2016

⁶ He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it.

John 12:6 Cross References

Psalm 14:1

A Psalm of David. O Lord, who will dwell in your tabernacle? Or who will rest on your holy mountain?

Proverbs 29:7

The just knows the case of the poor. The impious is ignorant of knowledge.

Ezekiel 33:31

And they come to you, as if the people were entering, and my people sit before you. And they listen to your words, but they do not do them. For they turn them into a song for their mouth, but their heart pursues their own avarice.

Matthew 21:13

And he said to them: "It is written: 'My house shall be called a house of prayer. But you have made it into a den of robbers.' "

Luke 8:3

and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many other women, who were ministering to him from their resources.

John 10:13

And the hired hand flees, because he is a hired hand and there is no concern for the sheep within him.

John 12:5

"Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the needy?"

John 13:29

For some were thinking that, because Judas held the purse, that Jesus had told him, "Buy those things which are needed by us for the feast day," or that he might give something to the needy.

1 Corinthians 6:10

nor the effeminate, nor males who sleep with males, nor thieves, nor the avaricious, nor the inebriated, nor slanderers, nor the rapacious shall possess the kingdom of God.

Galatians 2:10

asking only that we should be mindful of the poor, which was the very thing that I also was solicitous to do.

1 Thessalonians 5:22

Abstain from every kind of evil.

James 2:2

For if a man has entered your assembly having a gold ring and splendid apparel, and if a poor man has also entered, in dirty clothing,

James 2:6

But you have dishonored the poor. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you through power? And are not they the ones who drag you to judgment?