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John 12:5 KJV
John · chapter 12 · verse 5
Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?John 12:5 · King James Version
John 12:5 in context
3Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
4Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, which should betray him,
5Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
6This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
7Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- ointmentmyronointmentG3464 →
- hundredtriakosioithree hundredG5145 →
- pencedēnariondenarius = " containing ten" , A Roman silver coin in NT time. It took its name…G1220 →
- givendidōmito give, to give something to someone, of one s own accord to give one something, to his…G1325 →
- soldpipraskōto sell, of price, one into slavery, of the master to whom one is sold as a slave…G4097 →
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In these verses we have, I. The kind visit our Lord Jesus paid to his friends at Bethany, Joh 12:1. He came up out of the country, six days before the passover, and took up at Bethany, a town which, according to the computation of our metropolis, lay so near Jerusalem as to be within the bills of mortality.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-11