9For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
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For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? …
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.
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.
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-13)In this passage of story, we have, I. The singular kindness of a good woman to our Lord Jesus in anointing his head, Matt. 26:6 , 7 . It was in Bethany , a village hard by Jerusalem, and in the house of Simon the leper . Probably, he was one who had been miraculously cleansed from his leprosy by our Lord Jesus, and he would express his gratitude to Christ by entertaining him; nor did Christ disdai…
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