Mark 14:5
For this perfume could have been sold for above three hundred denaries, and given unto the destitute! and they were indignant with her.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
6But, Jesus, said—Let her alone! Why are ye reproaching, her? A seemly work, hath she wrought, in me;
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:27and murmured in your tents and said, Because Yahweh hated us, hath he brought us forth out of the land of Egypt,—to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
Matthew 18:28But that servant, going out, found one of his fellow-servants, who owed him, a hundred denaries, and, laying hold of him, he began seizing him by the throat, saying, Pay! if anything thou owest.
Matthew 26:9For this could have been sold for much, and given to the destitute.
John 6:7Philip answered him—Two hundred denaries-worth of loaves, are not sufficient for them, that, each one, may take, a little.
John 12:5Why was, this perfume, not sold for three hundred denaries, and given unto the destitute?
1 Corinthians 10:10Neither be ye murmuring, even, as some of them, 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 →