Mark 14:5

For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

In Context

4And some of them were displeased within themselves, and said: For what purpose was this waste of the ointment?

6But Jesus said: Let her alone; why do you trouble her? She has performed a good work on me.

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Cross References

Matthew 18:28But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow-servants, who owed him a hundred denarii; and he laid hold of him, and took him by the throat, saying: Pay me what you owe.

Matthew 26:9For this could have been sold for much, and given to the poor.

John 6:7Philip answered him: Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not enough for them, that each may take a little.

John 12:5Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?

1 Corinthians 10:10Nor do you murmur, as some of them also murmured, 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 →

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