Mark 14:4

And there were some that were much displeased, [[and said]] among themselves, Why is this waste of the ointment made?

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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 at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, there came a woman having an alabaster bottle of ointment of pure spikenard, very precious; and breaking the bottle, she poured it on his head.

5For this ointment might have been sold for more than three hundred denaries, and given to the poor. And they chid her harshly.

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 4:4And I saw all labor, and all success in work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor. This also is vanity, and striving after wind.

Malachi 1:12But ye profane it, In that ye say, “The table of Jehovah is polluted, And what is offered thereon, even its food, is contemptible.”

John 12:4But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, he who was about to betray him, saith,

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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