Matthew 26:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For this ointment could have been sold for a large sum and the money given to the poor.”

Cross References

2 Kings 5:20

Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, thought, “My master has let that Aramean Naaman off too lightly by not accepting from him what he offered. As the Lord lives, I will run after him and get something from him.”

Matthew 26:10

But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? She has performed a good service for me.

Matthew 26:8

But when the disciples saw it, they were angry and said, “Why this waste?

Mark 14:5

For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor.” And they scolded her.

2 Peter 2:15

They have left the straight road and have gone astray, following the road of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of doing wrong

1 Samuel 15:21

But from the spoil the people took sheep and cattle, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.”

1 Samuel 15:9

Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the cattle and of the fatted calves, and the lambs, and all that was valuable and would not utterly destroy them; all that was despised and worthless they utterly destroyed.