John 12:5 - Modern King James Version

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?"

John 12:5 Tagairtí Cros

Ezra 4:14

And because we have eaten the salt of the palace, and it was not right for us to see the king's dishonor, therefore we have sent and notified the king,

Exodus 5:17

But he said, You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, Let us go, let us sacrifice to Jehovah.

Exodus 5:8

And you shall lay upon them the number of bricks which they have made before now. You shall not take away from it. For they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go sacrifice to our God.

Amos 8:5

saying, When will the new moon be gone so that we may sell grain? And the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small and the shekel great, and perverting the balances by deceit;

Matthew 18:28

But the same servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. And he laid hands on him and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me what you owe.

Matthew 20:2

And when he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

Luke 12:33

Sell what you have and give alms. Make for yourselves purses which do not become old, an unfailing treasure in Heaven, where no thief comes nor moth corrupts.

Luke 18:22

And when Jesus heard these things, He said to him, Yet you lack one thing. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you shall have treasure in Heaven. And come, follow Me.

Luke 6:41

And why do you look at the splinter that is in your brother's eye, but do not see the beam that is in your own eye?

John 12:4

Then said one of His disciples (Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, who was to betray Him)

John 12:6

He said this, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and held the moneybag and carried the things put in.

John 13:29

For some thought, because Judas had the moneybag, that Jesus had said to him, Buy what we have need of for the feast; or that he should give something to the poor.

John 6:7

Philip answered Him, Loaves for two hundred denarii are not enough for them, that every one may take a little.