There were some who said to themselves indignantly, “Why was the ointment wasted like that?
Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
And when the ten heard it, they were indignant at the two brothers.
And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head.
For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor.” And they scolded her.