Mark 14:5
“For it might haue bene solde for more then three hundred pence, and haue bene giuen to the poore: and they murmured against her.”
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Mark 14:5 Context
3¶ And being in Bethanie, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sate at meat, there came a woman, hauing an Alabaster boxe of oyntment of spikenard very precious, and shee brake the boxe, and powred it on his head. 4And there were some that had indignation within themselues, and said, Why was this waste of the oyntment made? 5For it might haue bene solde for more then three hundred pence, and haue bene giuen to the poore: and they murmured against her. 6And Iesus said, Let her alone, why trouble you her? Shee hath wrought a good worke on me. 7For ye haue the poore with you alwayes, and whensoeuer ye will yee may doe them good: but me ye haue not alwayes.
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For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
- King James Version
"For this perfume might have been sold for over three hundred denarii, and {the money} given to the poor. And they were scolding her."
- New American Standard Version (1995)