'Given to the Poor' in the Bible

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

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

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

(as it is written, "He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor, his righteousness continueth for ever."