Mark 14:5
For this could have been sold for over three hundred denarii, and given to the poor. And they grumbled at her.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4And some were indignant within themselves, saying, Why has this waste of the ointment happened?
6But Jesus said, Leave her be. Why do ye cause troubles for her? She performed a good work on me.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:27And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because LORD hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
Matthew 18:28But after going out, that bondman found one of his fellow bondmen who owed him a hundred denarii. And having grabbed him, he choked him, saying, Pay me if thou owe anything.
Matthew 26:9For this ointment could have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
John 6:7Philip answered him, Loaves of two hundred denarii of bread are not sufficient for them, so that each of them may take a little something.
John 12:5Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?
1 Corinthians 10:10And ye should not grumble as some of them grumbled, and were destroyed by the destroyer.
Matthew Henry on Mark 14:2-12
Christ Anointed at Bethany; Judas Engages to Betray Christ. 1 After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. 2 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people. 3 And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.… Read the whole commentary →