Mark 14:2-4

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²but they were saying, “Not during the festival, for the people might riot.”

³While He was in Bethany [as a guest] at the home of ^[a]Simon the leper, and reclining at the table, a ^[b]woman came with an alabaster vial of very costly and precious perfume of pure ^[c]nard; and she broke the vial and poured the perfume over His head. ⁴But there were ^[d]some who were indignantly remarking to one another, “Why has this perfume been wasted?

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Footnotes

Mark 14:3 See note Matt 26:6.
Mark 14:3 John the Apostle identifies this woman as Mary, sister of Martha and Lazarus (Matt 26:7; John 12:3). Jesus was anointed in a similar way by an unnamed woman when he was in Galilee dining at the home of a Pharisee (Luke 7:36-39).
Mark 14:3 See note Matt 26:7.
Mark 14:4 Judas may have been the instigator of this complaint (John 12:4-6).