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


In Context

1 NOW the feast of the pasch, and of the Azymes was after two days; and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might by some wile lay hold on him, and kill him.

2 But they said: Not on the festival day, lest there should be a tumult among the people.

3 And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of precious spikenard: and breaking the alabaster box, she poured it out upon his head.

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

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

6 But Jesus said: Let her alone, why do you molest her? She hath wrought a good work upon me.

Mark 14:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:4And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

14:4Some of those present were saying indignantly to one another, "Why this waste of perfume?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

14:4But there were some that had indignation among themselves,'saying , To what purpose hath this waste of the ointment been made?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:4And there were some indignant in themselves, and saying, Why has this waste been made of the ointment?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

14:4But there were some that had indignation among themselves, saying, To what purpose hath this waste of the ointment been made?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:4And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:4But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, |Why has this ointment been wasted?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

14:4and there were certain much displeased within themselves, and saying, 'For what hath this waste of the ointment been made?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:4And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?