Mark 14:4

And there were some who felt indignation within themselves, saying, Wherefore is this waste of the ointment made?

Thomas Haweis 1795 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

3And when he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at table, a woman came, having an alabaster vase of ointment, of genuine spikenard, of vast value: and breaking the vase, she let it flow down upon his head.

5For it might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor. And they bitterly murmured against her.

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Cross References

John 12:4Then said one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, who was preparing to betray 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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