John 12:5

Good News Translation

“Why wasn't this perfume sold for three hundred silver coins and the money given to the poor?”

Cross References

Ezra 4:14

Now, because we are under obligation to Your Majesty, we do not want to see this happen, and so we suggest

Exodus 5:17

The king answered, “You are lazy and don't want to work, and that is why you ask me to let you go and offer sacrifices to the Lord.

Exodus 5:8

But still require them to make the same number of bricks as before, not one brick less. They don't have enough work to do, and that is why they keep asking me to let them go and offer sacrifices to their God!

Amos 8:5

You say to yourselves, “We can hardly wait for the holy days to be over so that we can sell our grain. When will the Sabbath end, so that we can start selling again? Then we can overcharge, use false measures, and fix the scales to cheat our customers.

Matthew 18:28

“Then the man went out and met one of his fellow servants who owed him a few dollars. He grabbed him and started choking him. ‘Pay back what you owe me!’ he said.

Matthew 20:2

He agreed to pay them the regular wage, a silver coin a day, and sent them to work in his vineyard.

Luke 12:33

Sell all your belongings and give the money to the poor. Provide for yourselves purses that don't wear out, and save your riches in heaven, where they will never decrease, because no thief can get to them, and no moth can destroy them.

Luke 18:22

When Jesus heard this, he said to him, “There is still one more thing you need to do. Sell all you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come and follow me.”

Luke 6:41

“Why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but pay no attention to the log in your own eye?

John 12:4

One of Jesus' disciples, Judas Iscariot—the one who was going to betray him—said,

John 12:6

He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief. He carried the money bag and would help himself from it.

John 13:29

Since Judas was in charge of the money bag, some of the disciples thought that Jesus had told him to go and buy what they needed for the festival, or to give something to the poor.

John 6:7

Philip answered, “For everyone to have even a little, it would take more than two hundred silver coins to buy enough bread.”