Mark 14:5

for this could have been sold for more than three hundred denaries, and given to the poor;' and they were murmuring at her.

Young's Literal Translation

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

4and there were certain much displeased within themselves, and saying, 'For what hath this waste of the ointment been made?

6And Jesus said, 'Let her alone; why are ye giving her trouble? a good work she wrought on me;

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:27and murmur in your tents, and say, In Jehovah's hating us He hath brought us out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorite — to destroy us;

Matthew 18:28'And, that servant having come forth, found one of his fellow-servants who was owing him an hundred denaries, and having laid hold, he took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that which thou owest.

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

John 6:7Philip answered him, 'Two hundred denaries' worth of loaves are not sufficient to them, that each of them may receive some little;'

John 12:5'Wherefore was not this ointment sold for three hundred denaries, and given to the poor?'

1 Corinthians 10:10neither murmur ye, as also some of them did murmur, and did perish 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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