Mark 14:4

New American Bible - revised edition

There were some who were indignant. “Why has there been this waste of perfumed oil?

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 4:4

Then I saw that all toil and skillful work is the rivalry of one person with another. This also is vanity and a chase after wind.

Matthew 20:24

When the ten heard this, they became indignant at the two brothers.

Mark 14:3

When he was in Bethany reclining at table in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of perfumed oil, costly genuine spikenard. She broke the alabaster jar and poured it on his head.

Mark 14:5

It could have been sold for more than three hundred days’ wages and the money given to the poor.” They were infuriated with her.