5For this ointment might have been sold for above three hundred pence, and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.


In Context

2 for they said, Not during the feast, lest haply there shall be a tumult of the people.

3 And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster cruse of ointment of spikenard very costly; and she brake the cruse, and poured it over his head.

4 But there were some that had indignation among themselves, saying, To what purpose hath this waste of the ointment been made?

5 For this ointment might have been sold for above three hundred pence, and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

6 But Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.

7 For ye have the poor always with you, and whensoever ye will ye can do them good: but me ye have not always.

Mark 14:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:5For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

14:5It could have been sold for more than a year's wages and the money given to the poor." And they rebuked her harshly.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

14:5For this ointment might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

14:5For this ointment might have been sold for above three hundred shillings, and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:5for this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor. And they spoke very angrily at her.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:5For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:5For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor.| They grumbled against her.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

14:5for this could have been sold for more than three hundred denaries, and given to the poor;' and they were murmuring at her.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:5For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.