Mark 14:4

Bible in Basic English 1965

But some of them were angry among themselves, saying, For what purpose has this oil been wasted?

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 4:4

And I saw that the cause of all the work and of everything which is done well was man's envy of his neighbour. This again is to no purpose and a desire for wind.

Matthew 20:24

And when it came to the ears of the ten, they were angry with the two brothers.

Mark 14:3

And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, seated at table, there came a woman with a bottle of perfumed oil of great price; and when the bottle was broken she put the perfume on his head.

Mark 14:5

We might have got more than three hundred pence for it, and given the money to the poor. And they said things against her among themselves.