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Mark 14:4
And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
Mark 14:4 · Webster 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 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 should be an uproar of the people.
3 And being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at table, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard, very precious; and she broke the box, and poured [it] on his head.
4 And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
5 For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
6 And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
7 For ye have the poor with you always, and whenever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
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