Mark 14:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Bible Comments

The anointing at Bethany:

Mark 14:3-5

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 spikenarda very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.

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

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.