John 12:5

"Why was not that perfume sold for 300 shillings and the money given to the poor?"

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4Then said Judas (the Iscariot, one of the Twelve--the one who afterwards betrayed Jesus),

6The reason he said this was not that he cared for the poor, but that he was a thief, and that being in charge of the money-box, he used to steal what was put into it.

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Cross References

Matthew 26:8"Why such waste?" indignantly exclaimed the disciples;

Mark 14:4But there were some who said indignantly among themselves, "Why has the ointment been thus wasted?

Luke 12:33Sell your possessions and give alms. Provide yourselves with purses that will never wear out, a treasure inexhaustible in Heaven, where no thief can come nor moth consume.

Matthew Henry on John 12:2-12

Mary Anoints Christ's Feet; Hypocrisy of Judas; Indignation of the Chief Priests. 1 Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. 2 There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him. 3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment. 4 Then… Read the whole commentary →

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