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Mark 14:5

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For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor.” So they grumbled against her.

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Mark 14:5 in other translations

For this ointment might have been sold for above three hundred shillings, and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

Mark 14:5 · American Standard Version

Mark 14:5 in context

  1. 3While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard—very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head.
  2. 4But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, “Why has this ointment been wasted?
  3. 5For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor.” So they grumbled against her.
  4. 6But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me.
  5. 7For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.