Mark 14:5
For it might have been sold for above three hundred pence, and given to the poor. And they inveighed against her.
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
In Context
4And there were some provoked at it and said, Why was this waste made of the ointment?
6But Jesus said, Let her alone, why do ye give her uneasiness?
Cross References
Matthew 18:28But that same servant, as he was going out, met with one of his fellow-servants, who owed him but an hundred pence; and he laid hold on him and seized him by the throat, saying, Pay me what thou owest me:
Matthew 26:9for this ointment might have been sold for a great deal of money, and given to the poor.
John 6:7Philip answered Him, Two hundred penny-worth 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 10:10as some of them also murmured, and 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 →