Mark 14:4 - Modern English Version

⁴ There were some with indignation within themselves, saying, “Why was this ointment wasted?

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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 Tagairtí Cros

Ecclesiastes 4:4

Then I observed that all labor and skill of work come 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 moved with indignation against the two brothers.

Mark 14:3

While He was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as He sat at supper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of ointment, a very costly spikenard. She broke the jar and poured the ointment on His head.

Mark 14:5

It might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor.” And they grumbled against her.