Mark 14:4

Now some were there who in ka'as (anger) said to one another, For what reason has this waste of ointment taken place?

Orthodox Jewish 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

3And he was in Beit-Anyah at the bais of Shim'on the leper, reclining at tish, and an isha (woman) came, having an alabaster flask of costly perfume, pure nard, and having broken open the alabaster flask, she poured [it on] the head of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.

5For this was able to be sold for more than three hundred denarii and to be given to the aniyim. And they were reproaching her.

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 4:4Again, I considered all amal, and every kishron hama'aseh (skillful achievement), that such is a simple derivative of kinat ish meirei'eihu (the envy of man of his neighbor). This also is hevel, a chasing after ruach.

Malachi 1:12But ye have committed chillul Hashem (desecration of the Name), in that ye say: 1 The shulchan Adonoi is mego'al (defiled); 1 and the fruit, even the food thereof, is contemptible. 1

John 12:4And Yehudah from K'riot, one of the talmidim of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, the talmid being about to betray him, 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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