Mark 14:5

For this myrrh was able to be sold for more than three hundred denaria, and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

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

4And there were certain ones indulging in indignation among themselves (and saying), For what was this loss of the myrrh?

6And Jesus said, Let her alone; why do you give her trouble? she hath wrought a beautiful work in me.

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Cross References

Matthew 18:28And that servant having gone out, found one of his fellow-servants, who owed him one hundred denaria: seized him, throttled him, saying, Pay me what you owe me.

Matthew 26:9For this was able to be sold for much, and given to the poor.

John 6:7Philip responded to Him, The loaves of two hundred denaria are not sufficient for these, that each one may receive a little.

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

1 Corinthians 10:10Neither murmur, as some of them murmured, and were destroyed 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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