Mark 14:5
For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii (300 days wages), and given to the poor.” They grumbled against her.
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4But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, “Why has this ointment been wasted?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:27You murmured in your tents, and said, “Because Adonai hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery], to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites [Descendants of Talkers], to destroy us.
Matthew 18:28“But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, who owed him one hundred denarii (100 days wages), and he grabbed him, and took him by the throat, saying, ‘Pay me what you owe!’
Matthew 26:9For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.”
John 6:7Philip [Loves horses] answered him, “Two hundred denarii (200 days wages) worth of matzah ·unleavened bread· is not sufficient for them, that everyone of them may receive a little.”
John 12:5“Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii (300 days wages), and given to the poor?”
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 →