Mark 14:5
For it might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and have been given to the poor. And they reproved her.
Revised King James New Testament
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In Context
4And some were indignant, and said to themselves, Why was this perfume wasted?
6And Jesus said, Let her alone; why are you troubling her? she has done a beautiful thing to me.
Cross References
Matthew 18:28But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, who owed him a hundred denarii: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me what you owe.
Matthew 26:9For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
John 6:7Philip answered him, Two hundred denarii of bread is not sufficient for every one of them to have a little.
John 12:5Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?
1 Corinthians 10:10Nor grumble, as some of them did, 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 →