John 12:5

Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred dinoreen, and given to the poor?

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?

In Context

4And Jihuda Scarjuta, one of his disciples, he who would betray him said,

6But this he said, not because for the poor he had care, but because he was a thief, and the purse was with him, and whatever fell into it he carried.

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Cross References

Matthew 26:8But his disciples saw and were displeased, and said, For what is this destruction?

Mark 14:4But there were men of the disciples who were displeased among themselves, and said, Why make destruction of this balsam?

Luke 12:33Sell your substance, and give alms: make to you bags which become not old, and a treasure which is not transient, in the heavens, where the thief does not approach, and the moth destroys not.

Matthew Henry on John 12:2-12

Mary Anoints Christ's Feet; Hypocrisy of Judas; Indignation of the Chief Priests. 1 Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. 2 There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him. 3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment. 4 Then… Read the whole commentary →

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