Mar 14:4-5 | TNotes | STEP | Summary for Mark 14:4-5: 14:4-5 Some (cp. Matt 26:8 ; John 12:4-5 ) were indignant over what they considered a waste of the expensive perfume, said to have been worth a year’s wages for the average worker. This large amount of money could have been given to the poor , and it was obligatory to remember the poor during Passover.

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‏ Mark 14:4-5

Summary for Mark 14:4-5: 14:4-5 ^a Some (cp. Matt 26:8 ^b; John 12:4-5 ^c) were indignant over what they considered a waste of the expensive perfume, said to have been worth a year’s wages for the average worker. This large amount of money could have been given to the poor, and it was obligatory to remember the poor during Passover.