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Mark 14:4

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And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?

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  1. Mark 14:2

    But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.

  2. Mark 14:3

    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.

  3. Mark 14:5

    For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

  4. Mark 14:6

    And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.

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