Mark 14:5

For this ointment might have been sold for above three hundred pence, and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

Revised Version 1895

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

4But there were some that had indignation among themselves, saying, To what purpose hath this waste of the ointment been made?

6But Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:27and ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath 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 went out, and found one of his fellow-servants, which owed him a hundred pence: and he laid hold on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay what thou owest.

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

John 6:7Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one may take a little.

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

1 Corinthians 10:10Neither murmur ye, 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 →

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