Matthew 26:9

Bible in Basic English 1965

For we might have got much money for this and given it to the poor.

Cross References

2 Kings 5:20

But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, the man of God, said, Now my master has taken nothing from Naaman, this Aramaean, of what he would have given him: by the living Lord, I will go after him and get something from him.

Matthew 26:10

But Jesus, seeing it, said to them, Why are you troubling the woman? she has done a kind act to me.

Matthew 26:8

But when the disciples saw it they were angry, saying, To what purpose is this waste?

Mark 14:5

We might have got more than three hundred pence for it, and given the money to the poor. And they said things against her among themselves.

2 Peter 2:15

Turning out of the true way, they have gone wandering in error, after the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was pleased to take payment for wrongdoing;

1 Samuel 15:21

But the people took some of their goods, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which were put to the curse, to make an offering of them to the Lord your God in Gilgal.

1 Samuel 15:9

But Saul and the people did not put Agag to death, and they kept the best of the sheep and the oxen and the fat beasts and the lambs, and whatever was good, not desiring to put them to the curse: but everything which was bad and of no use they put to the curse.