Mark 14:4

4 And there were some who were indignant within themselves and said, "Why was this ointment wasted?

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 being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as He sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard, very precious; and she broke the box and poured it on His head.

4 And there were some who were indignant within themselves and said, "Why was this ointment wasted?

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

6 And Jesus said, "Let her alone. Why trouble ye her? She hath wrought a good work on Me.