Mark 14:5
It could have been sold for over three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor.” And they scolded her.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
6But Jesus said, “Leave her alone; why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful deed to Me.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:27You grumbled in your tents and said, “Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be annihilated.
Matthew 18:28But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. He grabbed him and began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay back what you owe me!’
Matthew 26:9This perfume could have been sold at a high price, and the money given to the poor.”
John 6:7Philip answered, “Two hundred denarii would not buy enough bread for each of them to have a small piece.”
John 12:5“Why wasn’t this perfume sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?”
1 Corinthians 10:10And do not complain, as also some of them did, and were killed by 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 →