Mark 14:5
For that ointment might have been sold for fifteen pounds or more, and the money have been given to the poor." And they were exceedingly angry with her.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
4But there were some who said indignantly among themselves, "Why has the ointment been thus wasted?
Cross References
Matthew 18:28But no sooner had that servant gone out, than he met with one of his fellow servants who owed him 100 shillings; and seizing him by the throat and nearly strangling him he exclaimed, "`Pay me all you owe.'
Matthew 26:9"for this might have been sold for a considerable sum, and the money given to the poor."
John 6:7"Seven pounds' worth of bread," replied Philip, "is not enough for them all to get even a scanty meal."
John 12:5"Why was not that perfume sold for 300 shillings and the money given to the poor?"
1 Corinthians 10:10And do not be discontented, as some of them were, and they 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 →