For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
Three hundred pence. These were equivalent in value to thirty Roman aurei. So that for the thirty gold pieces which the miserable Judas accounted as lost in the anointing of Christ, he received thirty silver pieces for betraying Him.
