Mark 14:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁴ 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

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?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ 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.