But some were expressing indignation to one another:[a] “Why has there been this waste of perfumed oil? For this perfumed oil could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor!” And they began to scold[b] her. But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you cause trouble for her? She has done a good deed to me.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 14:4 Or perhaps “within themselves”
  2. Mark 14:5 The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to scold”)