Mark 14:5

That perfume could have been sold for more than one hundred and fifty dollars, and given to the poor."

Montgomery 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

4Some of those who were present said among themselves indignantly. "Why has the perfume been wasted like this?

6So they began upbraiding her, but Jesus said. "Let her alone. Why are you troubling her?

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Cross References

Matthew 18:28"But on his way out, that slave met a fellow slave who owed him fifty dollars. Seizing him by the throat, and nearly choking him, he exclaimed, "‘Pay me what you owe me!’

Matthew 26:9"Why is this waste? This perfume could have been sold for a good sum, and the money given to the poor."

John 6:7"Thirty-five dollars worth of bread," answered Philip, "is not enough for them, so that each can take a morsel."

John 12:5"Why was not this perfume sold for fifty dollars, and the proceeds given to the poor?"

1 Corinthians 10:10nor murmur, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the Destroying Angel.

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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