For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.”
Parallel translations
- KJV For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
- BSB This perfume could have been sold at a high price, and the money given to the poor.”
- ESV For this could have been sold for a large sum and given to the poor.”
- NKJV For this fragrant oil might have been sold for much and given to the poor.”
- NASB For this perfume could have been sold for a high price and the money given to the poor.”
- NLT “It could have been sold for a high price and the money given to the poor.”
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- John 12:5–6“Why wasn’t this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?”
- Mark 14:5For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor.” They grumbled against her.
- 1 Sam 15:9But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, of the cattle, and of the fat calves, and the lambs, and all that was good, and were not willing to utterly destroy them; but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
- 1 Sam 15:21But the people took of the plunder, sheep and cattle, the chief of the devoted things, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God in Gilgal.”
- 2 Kgs 5:20But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As Yahweh lives, I will run after him, and take something from him.”
- Josh 7:20–21Achan answered Joshua, and said, “I have truly sinned against Yahweh, the God of Israel, and this is what I have done.
- 2 Pet 2:15forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;
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