Mark 14:4

Catholic Public Domain Version

But there were some who became indignant within themselves and who were saying: "What is the reason for this waste of the ointment?

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 4:4

Again, I was contemplating all the labors of men. And I took notice that their endeavors are open to the envy of their neighbor. And so, in this, too, there is emptiness and superfluous anxiety.

Matthew 20:24

And the ten, upon hearing this, became indignant with the two brothers.

Mark 14:3

And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was reclining to eat, a woman arrived having an alabaster container of ointment, of precious spikenard. And breaking open the alabaster container, she poured it over his head.

Mark 14:5

For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and been given to the poor." And they murmured against her.