NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 4

Mark 14:4

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But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, “Why has this ointment been wasted?

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Mark 14:1–7

1

It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception and kill him.

2

For they said, “Not during the feast, because there might be a riot among the people.”

3

While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard—very costly. She broke the jar and poured it over his head.

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But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, “Why has this ointment been wasted?

5

For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor.” So they grumbled against her.

6

But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me.

7

For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.

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