John 12:5
Why was not this perfume traded for three hundred pence, and the money given to the poor?
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John 12:5
Why was not this perfume traded for three hundred pence, and the money given to the poor?
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John 12:4
But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot (who was to give him up), said,
John 12:5
Why was not this perfume traded for three hundred pence, and the money given to the poor?
John 12:6
(He said this, not because he had any love for the poor; but because he was a thief, and, having the money-bag, took for himself what was put into it.)
John 12:7
Then Jesus said, Let her be. Let her keep what she has for the day of my death.
John 12:8
The poor you have ever with you, but me you have not for ever.
2 Kings 5:20
But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, the man of God, said, Now my master has taken nothing from Naaman, this Aramaean, of what he would have given him: by the living Lord, I will go after him and get something from him.
John 6:70
Then Jesus said, Did I not make a selection of you, the twelve, and one of you is a son of the Evil One?
John 13:29
Some were of the opinion that because Judas kept the money-bag Jesus said to him, Get the things we have need of for the feast; or, that he was to give something to the poor.
Acts 5:2
And kept back part of the price, his wife having knowledge of it, and took the rest and put it at the feet of the Apostles.
Ephesians 4:28
Let him who was a thief be so no longer, but let him do good work with his hands, so that he may have something to give to him who is in need.
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John 12:3
Then Mary, taking a pound of perfumed oil of great value, put it on the feet of Jesus and made them dry with her hair: and the house became full of the smell of the perfume.
Matthew 26:7
There came to him a woman having a bottle of perfume of great price, and she put the perfume on his head when he was seated at table.
Matthew 26:8
But when the disciples saw it they were angry, saying, To what purpose is this waste?
Matthew 26:9
For we might have got much money for this and given it to the poor.
Mark 14:4
But some of them were angry among themselves, saying, For what purpose has this oil been wasted?
Mark 14:5
We might have got more than three hundred pence for it, and given the money to the poor. And they said things against her among themselves.
John 6:7
Philip made answer, Bread to the value of two hundred pence would not be enough even to give everyone a little.
Ecclesiastes 4:4
And I saw that the cause of all the work and of everything which is done well was man's envy of his neighbour. This again is to no purpose and a desire for wind.
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Galatians 2:10
Only it was their desire that we would give thought to the poor; which very thing I had much in mind to do.
Proverbs 11:24
A man may give freely, and still his wealth will be increased; and another may keep back more than is right, but only comes to be in need.
Proverbs 21:13
He whose ears are stopped at the cry of the poor, will himself get no answer to his cry for help.
Proverbs 28:27
He who gives to the poor will never be in need, but great curses will be on him who gives no attention to them.
Ecclesiastes 5:13
There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.
Isaiah 43:23
You have not made me burned offerings of sheep, or given me honour with your offerings of beasts; I did not make you servants to give me an offering, and I did not make you tired with requests for perfumes.
Malachi 3:8
Will a man keep back from God what is right? But you have kept back what is mine. But you say, What have we kept back from you? Tenths and offerings.
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