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Mark 14:5 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: King James Version
" For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her. "
Mark 14:5
Verse in Context
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3 And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
4 And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
5 For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
6 And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
7 For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
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Mark 14:1
"After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death."
Mark 14:2
"But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people."
Mark 14:3
"And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head."
Mark 14:4
"And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?"
Mark 14:6
"And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me."
Mark 14:7
"For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always."
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