Mark 14:4 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

⁴ But some were there who said to one another in anger, “Why was the ointment wasted in this way?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ 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)

⁴ But there were some that had indignation among themselves, saying, To what purpose hath this waste of the ointment been made?

Common English Bible

⁴ Some grew angry. They said to each other, “Why waste the perfume?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ But there were some who became indignant within themselves and who were saying: "What is the reason for this waste of the ointment?

Mark 14:4 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 4:4

Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from one person's envy of another. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Matthew 20:24

When the ten heard it, they were angry with the two brothers.

Mark 14:3

While he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very costly ointment of nard, and she broke open the jar and poured the ointment on his head.

Mark 14:5

For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and the money given to the poor.” And they scolded her.