“For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.”
It could have been sold for more than a year's wages and the money given to the poor. And they rebuked her harshly — the calculation is correct: a year's wages given to the poor is genuinely valuable. The rebuking of the woman is harsh (enebrimōnto autē) — the same word as Jesus' strong warning to the leper (1:43). The disciples who rebuked those bringing children now rebuke the woman pouring perfume. The pattern of discipleship failure continues.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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