Mark 14:4
But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, “Why has this ointment been wasted?
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Mark 14:4
But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, “Why has this ointment been wasted?
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Matthew 26:8
But when his disciples saw this, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste?
Matthew 26:9
For this ointment might have been sold for much and given to the poor.”
John 12:4
Then Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, one of his disciples, who would betray him, said,
John 12:5
“Why wasn’t this ointment sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?”
John 12:6
Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.
Ecclesiastes 4:4
Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
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Mark 14:3
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.
Mark 14:4
But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, “Why has this ointment been wasted?
Mark 14:5
For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor.” So they grumbled against her.
Mark 14:6
But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me.
Mark 14:7
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.
Mark 14:8
She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying.
Mark 14:9
Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News may be preached throughout the whole world, that which this woman has done will also be spoken of for a memorial of her.”
John 11:2
It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus, was sick.
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Malachi 1:12
“But you profane it when you say, ‘Yahweh’s table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.’
Malachi 1:13
You say also, ‘Behold, what a weariness it is!’ And you have sniffed at it”, says Yahweh of Armies; “and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?” says Yahweh.
Amos 8:5
saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
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Mark 14:58
“We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.’ ”
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