Sold (επραθη). First aorist passive indicative of πιπρασκω, old verb to sell (Matthew 13:46).

For three…

Three hundred pence. About forty dollars, or eight pounds and ten shillings.

Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence?—Both the earlier Gospels preface this estimate with a reference t…

Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house wa…

Alcuin of York: As the time approached in which our Lord had resolved to suffer, He approached the place He had chosen for Hi…

Judas Iscariot reappears here (cf. 6:70–71, the only previous mention of him in this gospel). Jesus knew Judas’s tendencies and was well aware of h…

Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred denarii? A pound of ordinary ointment, Pliny tells us, cost not more than ten denarii; bu…

Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence
Meaning Roman pence, one of which is, of the value of our mon…

Christ had formerly blamed Martha for being troubled with much serving. But she did not stop serving, as some who, when criticized for going too fa…

1. Until now, the Evangelist has been showing the power of Christ’s divinity by what he did and taught during his public life. Now he begins…