Mark 14:5

For this ointment might have been sold for more than three hundred denaries, and given to the poor. And they chid her harshly.

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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

4And there were some that were much displeased, [[and said]] among themselves, Why is this waste of the ointment made?

6But Jesus said, Let her alone; why do ye trouble her? A good deed hath she done for me.

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Cross References

Matthew 18:28But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow-servants, who owed him a hundred denaries; and he laid hold of him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay what thou owest.

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

John 6:7Philip answered him, Two hundred denaries' worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that each one may take a tittle.

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

1 Corinthians 10:10And do not ye murmur, as 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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