Mark 14:4

And ther were some that were not content in them selves and sayde: what neded this waste of oyntment?

Tyndale New Testament

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 he was in Bethania in the housse of Simon the leper even as he sate at meate ther came a woman hauynge an alablaster boxe of oyntment called narde that was pure and costly: and she brake the boxe and powred it on is heed.

5For it myght have bene soolde for more then thre hundred pens and bene geve vnto the poore. And they grudged agaynste hir.

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Cross References

John 12:4Then sayde one of his disciples name Iudas Iscariot Simons sonne which afterwarde betrayed 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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