Mark 14:5
We might have got more than three hundred pence for it, and given the money to the poor. And they said things against her among themselves.
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In Context
4But some of them were angry among themselves, saying, For what purpose has this oil been wasted?
6But Jesus said, Let her be; why are you troubling her? she has done a kind act to me.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:27And you made an angry outcry in your tents, and said, In his hate for us the Lord has taken us out of the land of Egypt, to give us up into the hands of the Amorites for our destruction.
Matthew 18:28But that servant went out, and meeting one of the other servants, who was in debt to him for one hundred pence, he took him by the throat, saying, Make payment of your debt.
Matthew 26:9For we might have got much money for this and given it to the poor.
John 6:7Philip made answer, Bread to the value of two hundred pence would not be enough even to give everyone a little.
John 12:5Why was not this perfume traded for three hundred pence, and the money given to the poor?
1 Corinthians 10:10And do not say evil things against the Lord, as some of them did, and destruction overtook them.
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 →