“Why wasn’t this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year’s wages.” “a year’s wages” (NIV) = 300 denarion. A denarius was the principal silver coin of the Roman empire and was worth about a day’s wage (Mt 20:2), so, allowing for the Sabbaths, this would be worth about …
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John 1:24-25
Now some Pharisees who had been sent questioned him, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?” Baptism was used by the Jews to admit Gentile converts. The males were circumcised but both males and females were baptized, denoting the ceremonial removable of the contaminants they had acquired in …