Mark 14:4

But some were expressing indignation to one another, saying, “Why has this ointment been wasted?

Text-Critical English NT

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

3Meanwhile Jesus was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the house of Simon the leper, and a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment made of pure nard. She broke the alabaster jar and poured the ointment on his head.

5It could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and the money could have been given to the poor.” So they began scolding her.

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Cross References

John 12:4Then one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, who was about to betray him, 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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