Mark 14:4

One of the people who were present became angry and said to the others, “◄ It is terrible that she wasted that perfume!/ Why did she waste that perfume?► [RHQ]

Translation for Translators

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

3Jesus was at Bethany town in the house of Simon, whom Jesus had healed from leprosy. While they were eating, a woman came to him. She was carrying a stone jar that contained expensive fragrant perfume called nard. She opened the jar and then she poured the perfume on Jesus’ head.

5It could have been sold { We could have sold it} for ◄a huge amount of money/an amount of money for which a person works for a year►, and then the money could have been given { we could have given the money} to poor people!” So he rebuked her.

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 4:4I also thought about all the hard work that people do and the skills that they have. And I thought about how they compete with each other because they are envious of others, and I concluded that this also is something that is not accomplishing anything useful, like chasing the wind.

Malachi 1:12But you priests show that you despise me by what you do. You say, ‘ It is all right if people pollute the altar by bringing sacrifices that are unacceptable.’

John 12:4But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, (OR, Judas, the man from Kerioth Town) objected. He was the one who later enabled Jesus’ enemies to seize him.

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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