Mark 14:3-5

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³ Jesus was in Bethany, at the house of Simon (known as “the Leper”). While he was at table, a woman came up with an alabaster pot containing extremely valuable ointment made of pure spikenard. She broke the pot and poured the ointment on Jesus’ head.

⁴ Some of the people there grumbled to one another.

“What’s the point of wasting the ointment?” they asked. ⁵ “That ointment could have been sold for three hundred dinars, and given to the poor.”

And they were angry with her.