Matthew 26:9
For we might have got much money for this and given it to the poor.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
In Context
8But when the disciples saw it they were angry, saying, To what purpose is this waste?
10But Jesus, seeing it, said to them, Why are you troubling the woman? she has done a kind act to me.
Cross References
1 Samuel 15:9But Saul and the people did not put Agag to death, and they kept the best of the sheep and the oxen and the fat beasts and the lambs, and whatever was good, not desiring to put them to the curse: but everything which was bad and of no use they put to the curse.
2 Kings 5:20But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, the man of God, said, Now my master has taken nothing from Naaman, this Aramaean, of what he would have given him: by the living Lord, I will go after him and get something from him.
John 12:5Why was not this perfume traded for three hundred pence, and the money given to the poor?
Matthew Henry on Matthew 26:7-14
Christ Anointed at Bethany. 6 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, 7 There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat. 8 But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste? 9 For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor. 10 When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me. 11 For ye have… Read the whole commentary →