Mark 14:5
“For it might haue bene solde for more then three hundred pence, and haue bene giuen to the poore: and they murmured against her.”
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Mark 14:5 Context
3¶ And being in Bethanie, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sate at meat, there came a woman, hauing an Alabaster boxe of oyntment of spikenard very precious, and shee brake the boxe, and powred it on his head. 4And there were some that had indignation within themselues, and said, Why was this waste of the oyntment made? 5For it might haue bene solde for more then three hundred pence, and haue bene giuen to the poore: and they murmured against her. 6And Iesus said, Let her alone, why trouble you her? Shee hath wrought a good worke on me. 7For ye haue the poore with you alwayes, and whensoeuer ye will yee may doe them good: but me ye haue not alwayes.
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For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
- King James Version
"For this perfume might have been sold for over three hundred denarii, and {the money} given to the poor. And they were scolding her."
- New American Standard Version (1995)
For this ointment might have been sold for above three hundred shillings, and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
- American Standard Version (1901)
We might have got more than three hundred pence for it, and given the money to the poor. And they said things against her among themselves.
- Basic English Bible
for this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor. And they spoke very angrily at her.
- Darby Bible
For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
- Webster's Bible
For that ointment might have been sold for fifteen pounds or more, and the money have been given to the poor." And they were exceedingly angry with her.
- Weymouth Bible
For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor." They grumbled against her.
- World English Bible
For this oynement myyte haue be seld more than for thre hundrid pens, and be youun to pore men. And thei groyneden ayens hir.
- Wycliffe Bible
for this could have been sold for more than three hundred denaries, and given to the poor;' and they were murmuring at her.
- Youngs Literal Bible