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Mark 14:5
for this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor. And they spoke very angrily at her.
Mark 14:5 · Darby Bible
Mark 14:5 in other translations
For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
It could have been sold for over three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor.” And they scolded her.
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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In context
2 For they said, Not in the feast, lest perhaps there be a tumult of the people.
3 And when he was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he lay at table, there came a woman having an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly; and having broken the alabaster flask, she poured it out upon his head.
4 And there were some indignant in themselves, and saying, Why has this waste been made of the ointment?
5 for this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor. And they spoke very angrily at her.
6 But Jesus said, Let her alone; why do ye trouble her? she has wrought a good work as to me;
7 for ye have the poor always with you, and whenever ye would ye can do them good; but me ye have not always.
8 What she could she has done. She has beforehand anointed my body for the burial.
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