Mark 14:5

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

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

4Now there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said: Why was this waste of the ointment made?

6But Jesus said: Let her alone, why do you molest her? She hath wrought a good work upon me.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:27And you would not go up, but being incredulous to the word of the Lord our God,

Matthew 18:28But when that servant was gone out, he found one of his fellow servants that owed him an hundred pence: and laying hold of him, throttled him, saying: Pay what thou owest.

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

John 6:7Philip answered him: Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one may take a little.

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

1 Corinthians 10:10Neither do you murmur: as some of them 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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