Mark 14:5

It could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor!” And they started censuring her.

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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

4But there were some who were expressing indignation to one another and saying: “To what purpose was this perfume wasted?

6But Jesus said: “Leave her alone! Why are you bothering her? She has done something useful to 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 grabbing him he started choking him saying, ‘Pay me back what you owe!’

Matthew 26:9For this perfume could have been sold for a good deal and given to the poor.”

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

John 12:5“Why wasn't this oil sold for 300 denarii and given to the poor?”

1 Corinthians 10:10And do not grumble, just as also some of them did—and were executed 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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