Mark 14:2-5 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

2. They said, “Not during the festival, for fear that there may be a riot among the people.”

3. When he was in Bethany reclining at table in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of perfumed oil, costly genuine spikenard. She broke the alabaster jar and poured it on his head.

4. There were some who were indignant. “Why has there been this waste of perfumed oil?

5. It could have been sold for more than three hundred days’ wages and the money given to the poor.” They were infuriated with her.

Mark 14