John 12:7

Jesus therefore said, Let her alone. She has keep it for the day of my burial.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.

In Context

6Now he said this, not because it was a concern to him about the poor, but because he was a thief, and he had the purse and removed things that were put in.

8For ye always have the poor with you, but ye do not always have me.

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Cross References

Psalms 109:31For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.

Matthew 26:10But Jesus knowing it, he said to them, Why do ye cause troubles to the woman? For she has wrought a good work upon me.

Matthew 27:57And having become evening, there came a rich man from Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was discipled by Jesus.

Mark 15:42And now having become evening, since it was the Preparation, that is, pre-Sabbath,

John 19:38And after these things Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because of fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might remove the body of Jesus, and Pilate allowed him. Therefore he came and removed the bod

Matthew Henry on John 12:2-12

Mary Anoints Christ's Feet; Hypocrisy of Judas; Indignation of the Chief Priests. 1 Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. 2 There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him. 3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment. 4 Then… Read the whole commentary →

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