Mark 14:5
It could've been sold for a year's wages and the money given to the poor.” They were angry with her.
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In Context
4Some of those who were there became annoyed and said, “Why waste this perfume?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:27You complained while you were in your tents and said, “It's because the Lord hates us that he led us out of Egypt in order to hand us over to the Amorites to be wiped out.
Matthew 18:28But when that same servant went out he found one of his fellow-servants who owed him just a hundred denarii. He grabbed him by the neck and choked him, saying, ‘Pay me back what you owe me!’
Matthew 26:9“This perfume could've been sold for a lot of money and given to the poor!”
John 6:7“Two hundred silver coins wouldn't buy enough bread to give everyone only a little,” Philip replied.
John 12:5“Why wasn't this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth three hundred denarii.”
1 Corinthians 10:10Don't complain at God, as some did, and died at the hands of the destroying angel.
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 →