Mark 14:5

For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor.” So they grumbled against her.

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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

4But there were some who were indignant amongst themselves, saying, “Why has this ointment been wasted?

6But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:27You murmured in your tents, and said, “Because the LORD hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.

Matthew 18:28“But that servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him one hundred denarii, 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 answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may receive a little.”

John 12:5“Why wasn’t this ointment sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?”

1 Corinthians 10:10Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, 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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