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


In Context

1 It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.

2 For they said, |Not during the feast, because there might be a riot of the people.|

3 While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard—very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head.

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

5 For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor.| They grumbled against her.

6 But Jesus said, |Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for 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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

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

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 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?