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


In Context

1 And the passover and the unleavened food were after two days, and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how, by guile, having taken hold of him, they might kill him;

2 and they said, 'Not in the feast, lest there shall be a tumult of the people.'

3 And he, being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, at his reclining (at meat), there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment, of spikenard, very precious, and having broken the alabaster box, did pour on his head;

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

5 for this could have been sold for more than three hundred denaries, and given to the poor;' and they were murmuring at her.

6 And Jesus said, 'Let her alone; why are ye giving her trouble? a good work she wrought on 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 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 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?