Mark 14:4

But there were some who were indignant amongst themselves, saying, “Why has this ointment been wasted?

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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

3While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard—very costly. She broke the jar and poured it over his head.

5For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor.” So they grumbled against her.

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 4:4Then I saw all the labour and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbour. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Malachi 1:12“But you profane it when you say, ‘The LORD’s table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.’

John 12:4Then Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, one of his disciples, who would 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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