Mark 14:5

For it might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and been given to the poor. And they were indignant at her.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 of the disciples, who were dissatisfied among themselves, and said: Why was this waste of the ointment?

6But Jesus said: Let her alone; why trouble ye her? She hath done an excellent act towards me.

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Cross References

Matthew 18:28Then that servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants who owed him a hundred denarii. And he laid hold of him and choked him, and said to him: Pay me what thou owest me.

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

John 6:7Philip said to him: Two hundred denarii in bread would not suffice them, that each might take but a little.

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

1 Corinthians 10:10Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured; and they 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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