Mark 14:4

And there were some indignant in themselves, and saying, Why has this waste been made of the ointment?

Darby Translation

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 when he was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he lay at table, there came a woman having an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly; and having broken the alabaster flask, she poured it out upon his head.

5for this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor. And they spoke very angrily at her.

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 4:4And I saw all labour, and all success of work, that it is man's jealousy of his neighbour. This also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.

Malachi 1:12But ye profane it, in that ye say, The table of the Lord is polluted; and the fruit thereof, his food, is contemptible.

John 12:4One of his disciples therefore, Judas [son] of Simon, Iscariote, who was about to deliver him up, says,

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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