Mark 14:4

And some of them were displeased within themselves, and said: For what purpose was this waste of the ointment?

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?

In Context

3And while he was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he reclined at table, there came a woman that had an alabaster box of ointment of pure nard, very costly; and she broke the box, and poured it on his head.

5For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

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Cross References

John 12:4Then said one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, who was about to deliver him up:

Matthew Henry on Mark 14:2-12

Christ Anointed at Bethany; Judas Engages to Betray Christ. 1 After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. 2 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people. 3 And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.… Read the whole commentary →

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