John 12:5 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁵ 3 Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried: Hosanna, blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord, the king of Israel.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Why was this perfume not sold for 300 denarii [a year's wages for an ordinary workman] and that [money] given to the poor (the destitute)?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred shillings, and given to the poor?

Common English Bible

⁵ “This perfume was worth a year’s wages! Why wasn’t it sold and the money given to the poor?” (

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ "Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the needy?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?

John 12:5 Cross References

Ezra 4:14

9 And I commanded: and search hath been made, and it is found, that this city of old time hath rebelled against kings, and seditions and wars have been raised therein.

Exodus 5:17

9 And the officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in evil case, because it was said to them: There shall not a whit be diminished of the bricks for every day.

Exodus 5:8

0 And the overseers of the works and the taskmasters went out and said to the people: Thus saith Pharao, I allow you no straw:

Amos 8:5

3 In that day the fair virgins, and the young men shall faint for thirst.

Matthew 18:28

AND it came to pass when Jesus had ended these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judea, beyond Jordan.

Matthew 20:2

0 But when the first also came, they thought that they should receive more: and they also received every man a penny.

Luke 12:33

1 And Peter said to him: Lord, dost thou speak this parable to us, or likewise to all?

Luke 18:22

0 Who shall not receive much more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.

Luke 6:41

9 But he that heareth, and doth not, is like to a man building his house upon the earth without a foundation: against which the stream beat vehemently, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.

John 12:4

2 And on the next day, a great multitude that was to come to the festival day, when they had heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

John 12:6

4 And Jesus found a young ass, and sat upon it, as it is written:

John 13:29

7 Peter saith to him: Why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thee.

John 6:7

5 Jesus therefore, when he knew that they would come to take him by force, and make him king, fled again into the mountain himself alone.