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Mark 14:5

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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.
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  1. John 13:29Rank 1 from verse 5
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    29For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.

  2. Matthew 20:11Rank 2 from verse 5
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    11And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,

  3. 1 Corinthians 10:10Rank 3 from verse 5
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    10Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

  4. Deuteronomy 1:27Rank 4 from verse 5
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    27And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the Lord hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

  5. Ephesians 4:28Rank 5 from verse 5
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    28Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

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Mark 14:5

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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might

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Sense 1: Power or strength. Sense 2: An auxiliary expressing possibility or permission.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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murmured

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Past-tense or past-participial form of murmur (to grumble; to complain; to utter complaints in a low, half articulated voice; to utter sullen discontent; with at, before the thing which is the cause of discontent).

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

against

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Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

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14:3¶ And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.

14:4And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?

14:5For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

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14:6And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.

14:7For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.

14:8She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.

14:9Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.

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