Mark 14:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • John 12:4-5 : 4 Then one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, who would betray him, said, 5 Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred pence and given to the poor?
  • Matt 26:8-9 : 8 But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste? 9 For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
  • Eccl 4:4 : 4 Again, I considered all the toil and every right work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
  • Eccl 5:4-8 : 4 When you vow a vow to God, do not delay to pay it, for He has no pleasure in fools; pay what you have vowed. 5 It is better not to vow than to vow and not pay. 6 Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, nor say before the angel that it was an error; why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands? 7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also various vanities; but fear God. 8 If you see the oppression of the poor and the violent perversion of judgment and justice in a province, do not marvel at the matter; for He who is higher than the highest regards, and there are higher than they.
  • Mal 1:12-13 : 12 But you have profaned it, in that you say, The table of the LORD is defiled; and its produce, even its food, is contemptible. 13 You said also, Behold, what a weariness it is! and you have sneered at it, says the LORD of hosts; and you brought what was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus you brought an offering: should I accept this from your hand? says the LORD.

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    6Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,

    7There came to him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at the table.

    8But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?

    9For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.

    10When Jesus understood it, he said to them, Why trouble you the woman? for she has worked a good work on me.

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

    6And Jesus said, Leave her alone; why do you trouble her? She has done a good work on me.

    7For you have the poor with you always, and whenever you will you may do them good; but me you do not have always.

    8She has done what she could; she has come beforehand to anoint my body for the burial.

    9Truly I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached throughout the whole world, this also that she has done shall be spoken of in memory of her.

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    2But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.

    3And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at dinner, there came a woman with an alabaster box of very precious ointment of spikenard; and she broke the box and poured it on his head.

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    3Then Mary took a pound of very costly spikenard ointment, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.

    4Then one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, who would betray him, said,

    5Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred pence and given to the poor?

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    7Then Jesus said, Leave her alone; she has kept this for the day of my burial.

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