After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.(Mark 14:1)
But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.(Mark 14:2)
And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.(Mark 14:3)
And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.(Mark 14:5)
And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.(Mark 14:6)
For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.(Mark 14:7)
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Mark 14:4 - Cross Reference
Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit. (Ecclesiastes 4:4)
Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him, (John 12:4)
But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste? (Matthew 26:8)
But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible. (Malachi 1:12)
When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed. (Ecclesiastes 5:4)