John 12:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““Why wasn’t this perfume sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?””
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““Why wasn’t this perfume sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?”
King James Version · Public Domain“Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred shillings, and given to the poor?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`Wherefore was not this ointment sold for three hundred denaries, and given to the poor?'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo John 12:5 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 5:8But require of them the same quota of bricks as before; do not reduce it. For they are lazy; that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’
- Exodus 5:17“You are slackers!” Pharaoh replied. “Slackers! That is why you keep saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.’
- Ezra 4:14Now because we are in the service of the palace and it is not fitting for us to allow the king to be dishonored, we have sent to inform the king
- Amos 8:5asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.
- Malachi 1:10“Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle useless fires on My altar! I take no pleasure in you,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.
- Matthew 20:2He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.
- Matthew 26:8When the disciples saw this, they were indignant and asked, “Why this waste?
- Matthew 26:9This perfume could have been sold at a high price, and the money given to the poor.”
- Mark 14:4Some of those present, however, expressed their indignation to one another: “Why this waste of perfume?
- Luke 6:41Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?
- Luke 12:33Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
- Luke 18:22On hearing this, Jesus told him, “You still lack one thing: Sell everything you own and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”
- John 6:7Philip answered, “Two hundred denarii would not buy enough bread for each of them to have a small piece.”
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