Charles Ellicott Commentary Mark 14:5

"For this ointment might have been sold for above three hundred shillings, and given to the poor. And they murmured against her." — Mark 14:5 (ASV)

For more than three hundred pence.—The specific mention of the sum, not given by St. Matthew, is one of the few points common to St. Mark and St. John (John 12:5).