Mark 14:5

We could have sold that bottle for more than 300 pieces of silver money and then given that money to people that have nothing.” And they growled at the woman.

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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

4Some of the people that were eating supper were very angry with the woman and said, “Why did she waste all that oil?

6But Jesus said, “Stop it! Why are you giving her trouble? Leave her alone! She has done a very good thing for me.

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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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