Mark 14:4

New English Translation

But some who were present indignantly said to one another, “Why this waste of expensive ointment?

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 4:4

Then I considered all the skillful work that is done: Surely it is nothing more than competition between one person and another. This also is profitless – like chasing the wind.

Matthew 20:24

Now when the other ten heard this, they were angry with the two brothers.

Mark 14:3

Now while Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, reclining at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of costly aromatic oil from pure nard. After breaking open the jar, she poured it on his head.

Mark 14:5

It could have been sold for more than three hundred silver coins and the money given to the poor!” So they spoke angrily to her.