for more than three hundred pence i. e. for more than 300 denarii, =300 × 7½ d. = about £10. To Judas it was intolerable there should be such an utter waste of good money.

they murmured This word has already been explained in the note on chap. Mark 1:43. Wyclif renders it here "þei groyneden in to hir." De Wette, "they scolded her." The word "expresses a passionate feeling, which we strive to keep back in the utterance." "St Mark, without a doubt, presents here the most accurate historic picture; St John defines most sharply the motive; St Matthew gives the especially practical historic form." Lange.

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