Devine Scripture

Mark 14:4

Mark chapter 14 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.3And 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 pure nard very costly; and she brake the cruse, and poured it over his head.

v.4This passage

v.5For this ointment might have been sold for above three hundred shillings, and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Ecclesiastes 4:4

    Then I saw all labor and every skilful work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

  • Matthew 26:8

    But when the disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?

  • Malachi 1:12

    But ye profane it, in that ye say, The table of Jehovah is polluted, and the fruit thereof, even its food, is contemptible.

  • John 12:4

    But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, that should betray him, saith,

  • Ecclesiastes 5:4

    When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou vowest.