Mark 14:5

For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence,.... Which, was to the value of our money nine pounds, seven shillings, and sixpence:

and given to the poor; which was thought to be a…

See this passage explained in the notes at Mat. 26:1-16. Mar 14:1 And of unleavened bread - So called because at that feast no other bread was used but that which had been made without leaven or…

It might have been sold - το μυρον, This ointment, is added by ABCDKL, thirty-five others, Ethiopic, Armenian, Gothic, all the Itala except one. Griesbach has received it into the text. The sum…

We have here instances,

I. Of the kindness of Christ's friends, and the provision made of respect and honour for him. Some friends he had, even in and about Jerusalem, that loved him, and never…

for more than three hundred pence i. e. for more than 300 denarii, =300 × 7½ d. = about £10. To Judas it was intolerable there should be such an utter waste of good money.

they murmured This word has…