Mark 14:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

Pence

Matthew 18:28

Have been given

John 12:5

John 13:29

Ephesians 4:28

And they

General references

Matthew 26:9

Bible References

Pence

But 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:

Have been given

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

For some of them thought, because Judas kept the purse, that Jesus said to him, Buy what things we have need of against the feast: or that he should give something to the poor.

Let him that stole steal no more; but rather let him labour, doing some good with his hands, that he may have something to bestow on him that hath need of it.

And they

And after they had received it they murmured against the master of the house,

And the pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man entertaineth wicked persons, and eateth with them.

Jesus therefore said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves.

as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

These are murmurers, complainers, who walk according to their own irregular desires; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, with admiration of certain persons for some advantage of their own.

General references

for this ointment might have been sold for a great deal of money, and given to the poor.