Sentences with phrase «nard worth»

Without warning, Mary appeared, clutching an alabaster vial containing a costly perfume — a pound of pure nard worth three hundred denarii, a year's wages.

Not exact matches

Each was worth around 6,000 denarii, which today would be more than I've earned in my 25 years in the ministry, or 20 of those flasks of pure nard Mary used on the feet of Jesus.
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