Mark 14:4

Some of the people there said to each other, “Why did she waste that perfume?

Plain English 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

3At the time, Jesus was at the town called Bethany. A man lived there that used to have a skin sickness, but then he got better. His name was Simon. Jesus went to Simon’s house, and he was eating dinner there. A woman came into the house with some special perfume in a pretty bottle. That perfume smelled really good and it cost a lot of money. She opened the bottle and poured the perfume on Jesus’s head.

5Why didn’t she sell it and get a lot of money, and give that money to poor people?” And they said angry words to her too.

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Cross References

John 12:4Judas Iscariot was there with Jesus’s other followers. (He was the one that turned against Jesus later.) He said,

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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