Mark 14:4

New Century Version

Some who were there became upset and said to each other, “Why waste that perfume?

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 4:4

I realized the reason people work hard and try to succeed: They are jealous of each other. This, too, is useless, like chasing the wind.

Matthew 20:24

When the other ten followers heard this, they were angry with the two brothers.

Mark 14:3

Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon, who had a skin disease. While Jesus was eating there, a woman approached him with an alabaster jar filled with very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She opened the jar and poured the perfume on Jesus’ head.

Mark 14:5

It was worth a full year’s work. It could have been sold and the money given to the poor.” And they got very angry with the woman.