John 12:5 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁵ “Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?”

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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

Now because we eat the salt of the palace and it is not fitting for us to witness the king's dishonor, therefore we send and inform the king,

Exodus 5:17

But he said, “You are idle, you are idle; therefore you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.’

Exodus 5:8

But the number of bricks which they made heretofore you shall lay upon them, you shall by no means lessen it; for they are idle; therefore they cry, ‘Let us go and offer sacrifice to our God.’

Amos 8:5

saying, “When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great, and deal deceitfully with false balances,

Matthew 18:28

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

Matthew 20:2

After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

Luke 12:33

Sell your possessions, and give alms; provide yourselves with purses that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

Luke 18:22

And when Jesus heard it, he said to him, “One thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

Luke 6:41

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?

John 12:4

But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (he who was to betray him), said,

John 12:6

This he said, not that he cared for the poor but because he was a thief, and as he had the money box he used to take what was put into it.

John 13:29

Some thought that, because Judas had the money box, Jesus was telling him, “Buy what we need for the feast”; or, that he should give something to the poor.

John 6:7

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