Mark 14:5
For it might haue bene sold for more then three hundreth pence, and bene giuen vnto the poore, and they murmured against her.
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In Context
4Therefore some disdained among themselues, and sayde, To what ende is this waste of oyntment?
6But Iesus saide, Let her alone: why trouble yee her? shee hath wrought a good worke on me.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:27And murmured in your tentes, and sayd, Because the Lord hated vs, therefore hath hee brought vs out of the land of Egypt, to deliuer vs into the hand of the Amorites, and to destroy vs.
Matthew 18:28But when the seruant was departed, hee found one of his felow seruants, which ought him an hundred pence, and he layde hands on him, and thratled him, saying, Pay me that thou owest.
Matthew 26:9For this oyntment might haue bene solde for much, and bene giuen to the poore.
John 6:7Philippe answered him, Two hundreth penie worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that euery one of them may take a litle.
John 12:5Why was not this oyntment sold for three hundreth pence, and giuen to the poore?
1 Corinthians 10:10Neither murmure ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed 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 →