5Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?


In Context

2 And they made him a supper there: and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that were at table with him.

3 Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of right spikenard, of great price, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

4 Then one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, he that was about to betray him, said:

5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?

6 Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and having the purse, carried the things that were put therein.

7 Jesus therefore said: Let her alone, that she may keep it against the day of my burial.

John 12:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:5Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

12:5"Why wasn't this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year's wages. "

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:5Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:5Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred shillings, and given to the poor?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:5Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:5Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:5|Why wasn't this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

12:5'Wherefore was not this ointment sold for three hundred denaries, and given to the poor?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:5Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?