John 12:5 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

⁵ Wherefore was not this perfumed oil sold for three hundred drachmas, 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 for the cause that we were salted with the salt of the temple, and not being fit to us to see the king's nakedness, for this we sent and made known to the king;

Exodus 5:17

And he will say, Ye are idle, ye are idle: for this ye said, We will go to sacrifice to Jehovah.

Exodus 5:8

And the measure of bricks which they made yesterday and the third day, ye shall put upon them; ye shall not take away from it, for they are slack; for this they cried, saying, We will go to sacrifice to our God.

Amos 8:5

Saying, When will the month pass through, and we will sell grain? and the Sabbath, and we will open wheat to diminish the ephah, and to enlarge the shekel, and to make crooked the balance of deceit?

Matthew 18:28

But that servant having come, found one of his fellow-servants who owed him one hundred drachmas, and having seized, he choked him, saying, Give back to me what thou owest.

Matthew 20:2

And having agreed for a drachma a day, he sent them to his vineyard.

Luke 12:33

Sell your possessions, and give alms; make to yourselves purses not growing old, an inexhaustible treasure in the heavens, where the thief approaches not, nor moth corrupts.

Luke 18:22

And Jesus having heard these, said to him, Yet one thing fails thee: all whatever thou hast, sell and distribute to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

Luke 6:41

And why beholdest thou the dried straw in thy brother's eye, and perceivest not the beam in thine own eye?

John 12:4

Then says one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, of Simon, being about to deliver him up,

John 12:6

And this he said, not that care was to him for the poor: but because he was a thief, and had the small coffer, and carried things deposited.

John 13:29

For some thought, since Judas had the small coffer, that Jesus says to him, Purchase of what we have need for the festival; or, that he might give something to the poor.

John 6:7

Philip answered him. Loaves of two hundred drachmas will not suffice them, that each of them should take some little.