John 12:5 - English Standard Version 2016

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 Tagairtí Cros

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; that is why you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.’

Exodus 5:8

But the number of bricks that they made in the past you shall impose on them, you shall by no means reduce 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 when that same servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii, and seizing him, he began to choke him, saying, ‘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 to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags 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

When Jesus heard this, 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 about to betray him), said,

John 12:6

He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it.

John 13:29

Some thought that, because Judas had the moneybag, 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 worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to get a little.”