Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
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Gill's Exposition
Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence,.... Meaning Roman pence, one of which is, of the value of our money, seven pence halfpenny; so that three hundred pence amount to nine pounds…
See this passage explained in the notes at Mat 26:3-16. Joh 12:2 A supper - At the house of Simon the leper, Mat 26:6. Lazarus was ... - The names of Martha and Lazarus are mentioned because it was…
Adam Clarke
Three hundred pence - Or denarii: about 9. 13s. 9d. of our money; reckoning the denarius at 7 3/4d. One of my MSS. of the Vulgate (a MS. of the 14th century) reads, cccc denarii.
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,…
Cambridge Bible
three hundred pence Here, as in Joh 6:7, the translation -pence" is very inadequate and misleading; -three hundred shillings" would be nearer the mark (see on Mar 6:7). S. Mark adds that some were…
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