Mark 14:4

and there were certain much displeased within themselves, and saying, “For what has this waste of the ointment been made?

Literal Standard Version

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 He, being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, at His reclining, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment, of spikenard, very precious, and having broken the alabaster box, poured [it] on His head;

5For this could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor”; and they were murmuring at her.

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 4:4And I have seen all the labor, and all the benefit of the work, because for it a man is the envy of his neighbor. Even this [is] vanity and distress of spirit.

Malachi 1:12“And you are defiling it in your saying, || The table of YHWH—it is defiled, || As for its fruit—its food is despicable.

John 12:4Therefore one of His disciples—Judas Iscariot, of Simon, who is 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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