Mark 14:4

And there were certain ones indulging in indignation among themselves (and saying), For what was this loss of the myrrh?

1902 William Baxter Godbey 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

3And He being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, He sitting at the table, a woman came having an alabaster box of myrrh of spikenard estimated very valuable; and breaking the alabastar box, she poured it on His head.

5For this myrrh was able to be sold for more than three hundred denaria, and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

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Cross References

John 12:4Then Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, the one about to betray Him, says:

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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