Mark 14:4
Therefore some disdained among themselues, and sayde, To what ende is this waste of oyntment?
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- John 12:4-5 : 4 Then said one of his disciples, euen Iudas Iscariot Simons sonne, which should betray him: 5 Why was not this oyntment sold for three hundreth pence, and giuen to the poore?
- Matt 26:8-9 : 8 And when his disciples sawe it, they had indignation, saying, What needed this waste? 9 For this oyntment might haue bene solde for much, and bene giuen to the poore.
- Eccl 4:4 : 4 Also I beheld all trauaile, & all perfection of workes that this is ye enuie of a man against his neighbour: this also is vanitie & vexation of spirit.
- Eccl 5:4-8 : 4 (5:3) When thou hast vowed a vowe to God, deferre not to pay it: for he deliteth not in fooles: pay therefore that thou hast vowed. 5 (5:4) It is better that thou shouldest not vowe, then that thou shouldest vow and not pay it. 6 (5:5) Suffer not thy mouth to make thy flesh to sinne: neither say before the Angel, that this is ignorance: wherefore shall God bee angry by thy voyce, and destroy the worke of thine hands? 7 (5:6) For in the multitude of dreames, and vanities are also many wordes: but feare thou God. 8 (5:7) If in a countrey thou seest the oppression of the poore, and the defrauding of iudgement and iustice, be not astonied at the matter: for hee that is higher then the highest, regardeth, and there be higher then they.
- Mal 1:12-13 : 12 But ye haue polluted it, in that ye say, The table of the Lord is polluted & the fruit thereof, euen his meat is not to be regarded. 13 Ye said also, Beholde, it is a wearines, and ye haue snuffed at it, sayth the Lord of hostes, and ye offred that which was torne, and the lame and the sicke: thus yee offred an offring: shoulde I accept this of your hand, sayth the Lord?
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- Matt 26:6-105 verses88%
6 And when Iesus was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper,
7 There came vnto him a woman, which had a boxe of very costly oyntment, and powred it on his head, as he sate at the table.
8 And when his disciples sawe it, they had indignation, saying, What needed this waste?
9 For this oyntment might haue bene solde for much, and bene giuen to the poore.
10 And Iesus knowing it, sayde vnto them, Why trouble yee the woman? For shee hath wrought a good woorke vpon me.
- Mark 14:5-95 verses87%
5 For it might haue bene sold for more then three hundreth pence, and bene giuen vnto the poore, and they murmured against her.
6 But Iesus saide, Let her alone: why trouble yee her? Shee hath wrought a good worke on me.
7 For yee haue the poore with you alwaies, and when yee will yee may doe them good, but me yee shall not haue alwaies.
8 She hath done that she coulde: she came afore hand to anoynt my body to the burying.
9 Verely I say vnto you, wheresoeuer this Gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done, shalbe spoken of in remembrance of her.
- Mark 14:2-32 verses83%
2 But they sayde, Not in the feast day, least there be any tumult among the people.
3 And when hee was in Bethania in the house of Simon the leper, as he sate at table, there came a woman hauing a boxe of oyntment of spikenarde, very costly, and shee brake the boxe, and powred it on his head.
- John 12:3-75 verses81%
3 Then tooke Mary a pound of oyntment of Spikenarde very costly, and anoynted Iesus feete, and wiped his feete with her heare, and the house was filled with the sauour of the oyntment.
4 Then said one of his disciples, euen Iudas Iscariot Simons sonne, which should betray him:
5 Why was not this oyntment sold for three hundreth pence, and giuen to the poore?
6 Nowe he said this, not that he cared for the poore, but because hee was a theefe, and had the bagge, and bare that which was giuen.
7 Then said Iesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying she kept it.
- Matt 26:12-143 verses74%
12 For in that shee powred this oyntment on my bodie, shee did it to burie me.
13 Verely I say vnto you, wheresoeuer this Gospel shall bee preached throughout all the worlde, there shall also this that shee hath done, be spoken of for a memoriall of her.
14 Then one of the twelue, called Iudas Iscariot, went vnto the chiefe Priestes,
- Luke 7:37-393 verses72%
37 And beholde, a woman in the citie, which was a sinner, when she knewe that Iesus sate at table in the Pharises house, shee brought a boxe of oyntment.
38 And shee stoode at his feete behinde him weeping, and began to wash his feete with teares, and did wipe them with the heares of her head, and kissed his feete, and anoynted them with the oyntment.
39 Nowe when the Pharise which bade him, saw it, he spake within himselfe, saying, If this man were a Prophet, hee woulde surely haue knowen who, and what maner of woman this is which toucheth him: for she is a sinner.
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2 (And it was that Mary which anointed the Lord with oyntment, and wiped his feete with her heare, whose brother Lazarus was sicke.)
- Luke 7:44-463 verses71%
44 Then he turned to the woman, and said vnto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entred into thine house, and thou gauest mee no water to my feete: but she hath washed my feete with teares, and wiped them with the heares of her head.
45 Thou gauest me no kisse: but she, since the time I came in, hath not ceased to kisse my feete.
46 Mine head with oyle thou didest not anoint: but she hath anoynted my feete with oyntment.
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29 For some of them thought because Iudas had the bag, that Iesus had sayd vnto him, Buy those things that we haue neede of against ye feast: or that he should giue some thing to the poore.
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5 Nowe as some spake of the Temple, how it was garnished with goodly stones, & with consecrate things, he sayd,
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24 And when the other ten heard this, they disdained at the two brethren.
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41 And when the ten heard that, they began to disdaine at Iames and Iohn.
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28 Then all that were in the Synagogue, when they heard it, were filled with wrath,
- Luke 22:23-242 verses67%
23 Then they began to enquire among themselues which of them it should be, that should do that.
24 And there arose also a strife among them, which of them should seeme to be ye greatest.
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30 And certaine of the sonnes of the Priestes made oyntments of sweete odours.
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15 But when the chiefe priestes and Scribes sawe the marueiles that hee did, and the children crying in the Temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Sonne of Dauid, they disdained,
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37 And some of them saide, Coulde not he, which opened the eyes of the blinde, haue made also, that this man should not haue died?
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41 And as Iesus sate ouer against the treasurie, he beheld how the people cast money into the treasurie, and many rich men cast in much.
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11 And when they had receiued it, they murmured against the master of the house,
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29 And they that went by, railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Hey, thou that destroyest the Temple, & buildest it in three dayes,
- Mark 11:15-162 verses66%
15 And they came to Hierusalem, & Iesus went into the Temple, & began to cast out them that solde and bought in the Temple, and ouerthrewe the tables of the money changers, and the seates of them that solde doues.
16 Neither would hee suffer that any man should cary a vessell through the Temple.
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43 Then he called vnto him his disciples, and said vnto them, Verely I say vnto you, that this poore widowe hath cast more in, then all they which haue cast into the treasurie.
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16 And said vnto them that solde doues, Take these things hence: make not my fathers house, an house of marchandise.
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14 All these thinges heard the Pharises also which were couetous, and they scoffed at him.
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45 He went also into the Temple, and began to cast out them that solde therein, and them that bought,
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12 Then came his disciples, and saide vnto him, Perceiuest thou not, that the Pharises are offended in hearing this saying?
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3 And beholde, certaine of the Scribes saide with themselues, This man blasphemeth.