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Mark 14:4
Therefore some disdained among themselues, and sayde, To what ende is this waste of oyntment?
Mark 14:4 · Geneva Bible
Mark 14:4 in other translations
And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
Some of those present, however, expressed their indignation to one another: “Why this waste of perfume?
But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, “Why has this ointment been wasted?
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In context
1 And two daies after followed the feast of the Passeouer, and of vnleauened bread: and the hie Priests, and Scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
2 But they sayde, Not in the feast day, least there be any tumult among the people.
3 And when hee was in Bethania in the house of Simon the leper, as he sate at table, there came a woman hauing a boxe of oyntment of spikenarde, very costly, and shee brake the boxe, and powred it on his head.
4 Therefore some disdained among themselues, and sayde, To what ende is this waste of oyntment?
5 For it might haue bene sold for more then three hundreth pence, and bene giuen vnto the poore, and they murmured against her.
6 But Iesus saide, Let her alone: why trouble yee her? shee hath wrought a good worke on me.
7 For yee haue the poore with you alwaies, and when yee will yee may doe them good, but me yee shall not haue alwaies.
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