Mark 14:5

For this could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor”; and they were murmuring at her.

Literal Standard Version

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

4and there were certain much displeased within themselves, and saying, “For what has this waste of the ointment been made?

6And Jesus said, “Leave her alone; why are you giving her trouble? She worked a good work on Me;

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:27and murmur in your tents, and say, In YHWH’s hating us He has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorite—to destroy us;

Matthew 18:28And that servant having come forth, found one of his fellow-servants who was owing him one hundred denarii, and having laid hold, he took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that which you owe.

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

John 6:7Philip answered Him, “Two hundred denarii worth of loaves are not sufficient to them, that each of them may receive some little”;

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

1 Corinthians 10:10neither murmur, as also some of them murmured, and perished 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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