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What does Mark 14:5 mean?
"For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor.” They grumbled against her."
— Mark 14:5 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
For they said, “Not during the feast, because there might be a riot among the people.”
While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard—very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head.
But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, “Why has this ointment been wasted?
For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor.” They grumbled against her.
But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me.
For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.
She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying.
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