Mark 14:5

for it could have been sold for more than three hundred dinoreen, and given to the poor. And they were angry with her.

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

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 men of the disciples who were displeased among themselves, and said, Why make destruction of this balsam?

6But he, Jeshu, said, Let her alone; why do you trouble her? A good work hath she wrought upon me.

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Cross References

Matthew 18:28Then went forth that servant, and found one of his fellows who owed him a hundred pence; and he seized him, strangling, and saying to him, Give me what thou owest to me.

Matthew 26:9For this could have been sold for much, and given to the poor.

John 6:7Philipos saith to him, Two hundred dinoreen of bread is not sufficient for them, that a little every one of them may take.

John 12:5Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred dinoreen, and given to the poor?

1 Corinthians 10:10Neither murmur you, as some of them murmured, and perished by the hand of 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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