Matthew 26:9 · KJV
“For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.”
— Matthew 26:9
But when his disciples saw {it}, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose {is} this waste?
When Jesus understood {it}, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.
Matthew 26 — Context
There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat {at meat}.
8But when his disciples saw {it}, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose {is} this waste?
9For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
10When Jesus understood {it}, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.
11For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
Cross References
Mark 14:5
For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
John 12:5-6
Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
1 Samuel 15:9
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. {fatlings: or, second sort}
1 Samuel 15:21
But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal.
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.
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:
2 Peter 2:15
Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam {the son} of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;