Mark 14:4

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

Mark 14:4 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 14:4

And there were some that had indignation within themselves,
&c.] The Syriac version reads, "some of the disciples": agreeably to ( Matthew 26:8 ) , particularly Judas, and others might be incensed by his means:

and said, why was this waste of the ointment made?
(See Gill on Matthew 26:8).

Mark 14:4 In-Context

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

3 And he being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, sitting at the table, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and breaking the alabaster, she poured it over his head.

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

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

6 But Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? She has wrought a good work on me.