Mark 14:5

This perfume could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor.” Then they scolded her.

Unlocked Literal Bible

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

4But there were some who were angry. They spoke among themselves and said, “What is the reason for this waste?

6But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why are you troubling her? She has done a beautiful thing for me.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:27You complained in your tents and said, “It is because Yahweh hated us that he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.

Matthew 18:28But that servant went out and found one of his fellow servants, who owed him one hundred denarii. He grasped him, took him by the throat, and said, 'Pay me what you owe.'

Matthew 26:9This could have been sold for a large amount and given to the poor.”

John 6:7Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be sufficient for each one to have even a little.”

John 12:5“Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?”

1 Corinthians 10:10Also do not grumble, as many of them did and were destroyed by an angel of death.

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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