Mark 14:5

For it was possible for this to be sold for more than three hundred denarii, and to be given to the poor.” And they were scolding her.

English Majority Text (NT)

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

4But some were expressing indignation to one another and saying, “Why has this waste of the perfume occurred?

6But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has worked a beautiful work for Me.

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Cross References

Matthew 18:28“But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. And taking hold of him, he was choking him, saying, ‘Pay me what you owe!’

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

John 6:7Philip answered Him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not enough for them, that each of them might receive a little.”

John 12:5“Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?”

1 Corinthians 10:10nor murmur, just as also 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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