Matthew 26:9 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For this perfume might have been sold for a large sum and the money given to the poor.

American Standard Version (1901)

For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.

Common English Bible

This perfume could have been sold for a lot of money and given to the poor.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

For this could have been sold for a great deal, so as to be given to the poor."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For this might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.

Matthew 26:9 Cross References

2 Kings 5:20

Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “See, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not accepting from his hand what he brought. As the Lord lives, I will run after him, and get something from him.”

Matthew 26:10

But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me.

Matthew 26:8

But when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste?

Mark 14:5

For this ointment might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor.” And they reproached her.

2 Peter 2:15

Forsaking the right way they have gone astray; they have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing,

1 Samuel 15:21

But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.”

1 Samuel 15:9

But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them; all that was despised and worthless they utterly destroyed.