Mark 14:5
For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and been given to the poor.” And they murmured against her.
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Deuteronomy 1:27you murmured in your tents, and you said: ‘The Lord hates us, and therefore he has led us away from the land of Egypt, so that he might deliver us into the hand of the Amorite and destroy us.
Matthew 18:28But when that servant departed, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him one hundred denarius. And taking hold of him, he choked him, saying: ‘Repay what you owe.’
Matthew 26:9For this could have been sold for a great deal, so as to be given to the poor.”
John 6:7Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii of bread would not be sufficient for each of them to receive even a little.”
John 12:5“Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the needy?”
1 Corinthians 10:10And you should not murmur, as some of them murmured, and so they perished 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 →