John 12:5

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

1770 John Worsley NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4Therefore said one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, who was about to betray Him,

6He said this, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the common purse he carried what was put into it.

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Cross References

Matthew 26:8but when his disciples saw it, they were some of them provoked at it, and said, Wherefore is this waste?

Mark 14:4And there were some provoked at it and said, Why was this waste made of the ointment?

Luke 12:33Sell what ye have, and give alms: provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a never-failing treasure in the heavens, where no thief approacheth nor moth corrupteth:

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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