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


In Context

2 But they said, Not on the feast-day, lest there should be an uproar of the people.

3 And being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at table, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard, very precious; and she broke 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 whenever ye will ye may 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 English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

14:5For this ointment might have been sold for above three hundred pence, and 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.