This perfume could have been sold at a high price, and the money given to the poor."
Cross References
Matthew 26:8When the disciples saw this, they were indignant and asked, "Why this waste?
Matthew 26:10Aware of this, Jesus asked, "Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful deed to Me.
Treasury of Scripture
For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
Joshua 7:20,21
And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done: …
1 Samuel 15:9,21
But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly…
2 Kings 5:20
But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the LORD liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.
