Mark 14:4

But there were some that bare it heavily within themselves, and said, Whereto is this loss of ointment made?

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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 leprous, and rested, [or and sat at the meat], (or and sat at the meal), a woman came, that had a box of alabaster of precious ointment spikenard; and when the box of alabaster was broken, she poured it on his head.

5For this ointment might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and be given to poor men. And they grudged against her (or And they grumbled against her).

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 4:4Again I beheld all the travails of men, and busynesses; and I perceived that those be open to [the] envy of the neighbour; and therefore in this is vanity, (or and so this is emptiness and futility), and superfluous busyness.

Malachi 1:12And ye have defouled it in that that ye say, The board of the Lord is defouled, and that that is put above is contemptible, or worthy for to be despised, with [the] fire that devoureth it. (But ye have defiled it because ye say, The table of the Lord, (or the Lord’s altar), can be defiled, and that the food that is put upon it is contemptible, (or it is worthy to be despised), by the fire that devoureth it.)

John 12:4Therefore Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, that was 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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