Mark 14:5

She should have given that sweet perfume for big money. She could have got big money. Then she could have given that money to poor people.” In that way they were talking. Truly they rebuked that woman.

Nyangumarta (portions)

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

4Some people there became angry, they were saying to each other, “Why did she do that? She truly did badly.

6In response Jesus said to them, “Leave her alone. Why do you rebuke her? She did a good thing for me.

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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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