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Mark 14:5
For this ointment might have been sold for more than three hundred pence and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
Mark 14:5 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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 But they said: Not on the festival day, lest there should be a tumult among the people.
3 And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of precious spikenard. And breaking the alabaster box, she poured it out upon his head.
4 Now there were some that had indignation within themselves and said: Why was this waste of the ointment made?
5 For this ointment might have been sold for more than three hundred pence and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
6 But Jesus said: Let her alone. Why do You molest her? She hath wrought a good work upon me.
7 For the poor you have always with you: and whensoever you will, you may do them good: but me you have not always.
8 She hath done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my body for the burial.
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