Mark 14:4

Some of those present, however, expressed their indignation to one another and said, “Why this waste of perfume?

Majority Standard Bible

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

3While Jesus was in Bethany reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke open the jar and poured it on Jesus’ head.

5It could have been sold for over three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor.” And they scolded her.

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 4:4I saw that all labor and success spring from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Malachi 1:12“But you profane it when you say, ‘The table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is contemptible.’

John 12:4But one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, son of Simon, who was going to betray Him, asked,

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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