Mark 14:5

For it might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor. And they bitterly murmured against her.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

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 some who felt indignation within themselves, saying, Wherefore is this waste of the ointment made?

6Then said Jesus, Let her alone; why give ye her uneasiness? she hath performed a laudable act towards me.

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Cross References

Matthew 18:28But that servant going out, found one of his fellow-servants, who owed him a hundred denarii, and seizing, throttled him, saying, Pay me what thou owest.

Matthew 26:9For this ointment might have been sold for a considerable sum, and given to the poor.

John 6:7Philip answered him, Two hundred denarii spent in bread would not procure a sufficiency for them, that every one of them might have a morsel.

John 12:5Wherefore was not this aromatic ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?

1 Corinthians 10:10Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, 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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