King James Version (KJV)
Mark 14:4
“And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?”
Verse in context — Mark 14
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 brake the box, and poured [it] on 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 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.›
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