For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor.” And they scolded her.
Some thought that, because Judas had the moneybag, Jesus was telling him, “Buy what we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor.
These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage.
Do all things without grumbling or disputing,
Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.
nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer.
“Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?” He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it.
Jesus answered them, “Do not grumble among yourselves.
Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to get a little.”
And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.”
And on receiving it they grumbled at the master of the house,
But when that same servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii, and seizing him, he began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay what you owe.’
They murmured in their tents, and did not obey the voice of the Lord.
And you murmured in your tents and said, ‘Because the Lord hated us he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
and in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord, because he has heard your grumbling against the Lord. For what are we, that you grumble against us?” And Moses said, “When the Lord gives you in the evening meat to eat and in the morning bread to the full, because the Lord has heard your grumbling that you grumble against him—what are we? Your grumbling is not against us but against the Lord.”
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