Mark 14:4

Plain English Version

Some of the people there said to each other, “Why did she waste that perfume?

Cross References

Mark 14:3

At the time, Jesus was at the town called Bethany. A man lived there that used to have a skin sickness, but then he got better. His name was Simon. Jesus went to Simon’s house, and he was eating dinner there. A woman came into the house with some special perfume in a pretty bottle. That perfume smelled really good and it cost a lot of money. She opened the bottle and poured the perfume on Jesus’s head.

Mark 14:5

Why didn’t she sell it and get a lot of money, and give that money to poor people?” And they said angry words to her too.