Mark 14:5
It could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and the money could have been given to the poor.” So they began scolding her.
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
In Context
4But some were expressing indignation to one another, saying, “Why has this ointment been wasted?
Cross References
Matthew 18:28But that servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. He grabbed him and began to choke him, saying, ‘Repay me what yoʋ owe.’
Matthew 26:9This ointment could have been sold for a large sum, and the money could have been given to the poor.”
John 6:7Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be sufficient for each of them to receive a little portion.”
John 12:5“Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?”
1 Corinthians 10:10And do not grumble as some of them did and were killed 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 →