Mark 14:4

Good News Translation

Some of the people there became angry and said to one another, “What was the use of wasting the perfume?

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 4:4

I have also learned why people work so hard to succeed: it is because they envy the things their neighbors have. But it is useless. It is like chasing the wind.

Matthew 20:24

When the other ten disciples heard about this, they became angry with the two brothers.

Mark 14:3

Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon, a man who had suffered from a dreaded skin disease. While Jesus was eating, a woman came in with an alabaster jar full of a very expensive perfume made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on Jesus' head.

Mark 14:5

It could have been sold for more than three hundred silver coins and the money given to the poor!” And they criticized her harshly.