Mark 14:5 - Exposition

For this ointment might have been sold for above three hundred pence, and given to the poor. Three hundred pence would amount to about £10 12s. 6d. of English money. It appears from St. John ( John 13:29 ) that the wants of the poor were carefully attended to by our Lord and his disciples. And they murmured against her ἐνεβριμῶντο ); another very expressive verb in the original, they growled at her; rebuked her vehemently.