Mark 14:4

Some of those who were present said to one another indignantly, “Why has the perfume been wasted like this?

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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

3When Jesus was still at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, while he was sitting at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of choice spikenard perfume of great value. She broke the jar, and poured the perfume on his head.

5This perfume could have been sold for more than a year’s wages, and the money given to the poor.”

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Cross References

Malachi 1:12“But you profane me when you say, ‘The table of the Lord is polluted, and its food is contemptible.’

John 12:4One of the disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was about to betray Jesus, 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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