Mark 14:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

But there were some that had indignation among themselves, saying, To what purpose hath this waste of the ointment been made?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But there were some who were moved with indignation and said to themselves, To what purpose was the ointment (perfume) thus wasted?

American Standard Version (1901)

But there were some that had indignation among themselves, saying, To what purpose hath this waste of the ointment been made?

Common English Bible

Some grew angry. They said to each other, “Why waste the perfume?

Catholic Public Domain Version

But there were some who became indignant within themselves and who were saying: "What is the reason for this waste of the ointment?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Now there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said: Why was this waste of the ointment made?

Mark 14:4 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 4:4

Then I saw all labour and every skilful work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Matthew 20:24

And when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation concerning the two brethren.

Mark 14:3

And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster cruse of ointment of spikenard very costly; and she brake the cruse, and poured it over his head.

Mark 14:5

For this ointment might have been sold for above three hundred pence, and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.