John 12:5

New American Bible - revised edition

“Why was this oil not sold for three hundred days’ wages and given to the poor?”

Cross References

Ezra 4:14

Now, since we eat the salt of the palace and it is not fitting for us to look on while the king is being dishonored, we have sent this message to inform the king,

Exodus 5:17

He answered, “Lazy! You are lazy! That is why you keep saying, ‘Let us go and offer sacrifice to the Lord.’

Exodus 5:8

Yet you shall levy upon them the same quota of bricks as they made previously. Do not reduce it. They are lazy; that is why they are crying, ‘Let us go to offer sacrifice to our God.’

Amos 8:5

“When will the new moon be over,” you ask, “that we may sell our grain, And the sabbath, that we may open the grain-bins? We will diminish the ephah, add to the shekel, and fix our scales for cheating!

Matthew 18:28

When that servant had left, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a much smaller amount. He seized him and started to choke him, demanding, ‘Pay back what you owe.’

Matthew 20:2

After agreeing with them for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard.

Luke 12:33

Sell your belongings and give alms. Provide money bags for yourselves that do not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven that no thief can reach nor moth destroy.

Luke 18:22

When Jesus heard this he said to him, “There is still one thing left for you: sell all that you have and distribute it to the poor, and you will have a treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

Luke 6:41

Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own?

John 12:4

Then Judas the Iscariot, one [of] his disciples, and the one who would betray him, said,

John 12:6

He said this not because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief and held the money bag and used to steal the contributions.

John 13:29

Some thought that since Judas kept the money bag, Jesus had told him, “Buy what we need for the feast,” or to give something to the poor.

John 6:7

Philip answered him, “Two hundred days’ wages worth of food would not be enough for each of them to have a little [bit].”