Mark 14:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor.” And they scolded her.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For it was possible to have sold this [perfume] for more than 300 denarii [a laboring man's wages for a year] and to have given [the money] to the poor. And they censured and reproved her.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

This perfume could have been sold for almost a year’s pay and the money given to the poor.” And they scolded her.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and been given to the poor." And they murmured against her.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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 Cross References

Psalm 106:25

They grumbled in their tents and did not obey the voice of the Lord.

Matthew 18:28

But that same slave, as he went out, came upon one of his fellow slaves who owed him a hundred denarii, and seizing him by the throat he said, ‘Pay what you owe.’

Matthew 20:11

And when they received it, they grumbled against the landowner,

Matthew 26:9

For this ointment could have been sold for a large sum and the money given to the poor.”

Mark 14:4

But some were there who said to one another in anger, “Why was the ointment wasted in this way?

Mark 14:6

But Jesus said, “Let her alone; why do you trouble her? She has performed a good service for me.

Luke 15:2

And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, “This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.”

John 13:29

Some thought that, because Judas had the common purse, Jesus was telling him, “Buy what we need for the festival,” or that he should give something to the poor.

John 6:43

Jesus answered them, “Do not complain among yourselves.

John 6:7

Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii would not buy enough bread for each of them to get a little.”

1 Corinthians 10:10

And do not complain, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

Ephesians 4:28

Those who steal must give up stealing; rather, let them labor, doing good work with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy.

Deuteronomy 1:27

you grumbled in your tents and said, ‘It is because the Lord hates us that he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to hand us over to the Amorites to destroy us.

Philippians 2:14

Do all things without murmuring and arguing,

Jude 1:16

These are grumblers and malcontents; they indulge their lusts; their mouths utter bombastic nonsense, flattering people to their own advantage.