Mark 14:4

A Conservative Version

And some were indignant within themselves, saying, Why has this waste of the ointment happened?

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 4:4

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

Matthew 20:24

And when the ten heard it, they were indignant about the two brothers.

Mark 14:3

And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat relaxing, a woman came having an alabaster cruse of ointment of pure spikenard, very valuable. And having broken the alabaster cruse, she poured it on his head.

Mark 14:5

For this could have been sold for over three hundred denarii, and given to the poor. And they grumbled at her.