| 1835 - 792 pages
...some, in like devotion as did Judas, — what needed this waste? This might hare been told for much and given to the poor! Not that he cared for the poor, but because fie niai a thief, and had the bag, and bare that which was given. I doubt not there are many which... | |
| Edward Cooper - 1820 - 874 pages
...ointment should have been sold, and given to the poor : but " this he said," pursues the Evangelist, " not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and had the bag, and bare what was put therein."* His objection was dictated merely by a feeling of selfishness and avarice.... | |
| Joseph Lathrop - 1821 - 406 pages
...sold for three hundred pence and given to the poor ?" " This he spake, not because he cared any thing for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein." Had the ointment been sold, the proceeds would have come into his hands ; and... | |
| John Newton - 1821 - 686 pages
...professed a warm concern for the poor ; but we are told the true reason of his economy : it was not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the, hag, which contained the common stock, intrusted 1 Mark xiv. 71. " He began to curse and swear." Av... | |
| 1843 - 684 pages
...that it ought to have been given to the poor ; and yet St. John says that he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein. It is of importance to observe this, because, in fact, our particular sins take... | |
| Abner Kneeland - 1823 - 438 pages
...Why was not this balsam sold for three hundred denarii,* and given to the poor?" 6 Now he said this, not that he cared for the poor: but because he was a thief, and had the purse, and carried what was put in it. 7 Then said Jesus, " Suffer her: against the day of my embalming... | |
| Philip Skelton - 1824 - 548 pages
...' Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor ? But this he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.' Yet, thief and hypocrite as he was, it is probable his own unassisted wickedness... | |
| 1824 - 462 pages
...him, 5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor ? 6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor ; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein. 7 Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept... | |
| Philip Skelton - 1824 - 1090 pages
...' Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor ? But this he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.' Yet, thief and hypocrite as he was, it is probable his own unassisted wickedness... | |
| 1824 - 400 pages
...ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?." " This," we are informed, " he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein." Influenced by a sordid covetous disposition, he seems occasionally to have taken... | |
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