Mark 14:6
But Jesus said, Leave her be. Why do ye cause troubles for her? She performed a good work on me.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
In Context
Cross References
Job 42:7And it was so, that, after LORD had spoken these words to Job, LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends. For ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Jo
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.
Acts 9:36Now at Joppa there was a certain disciple named Tabitha, which, being translated, is called Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and charities that she did.
2 Corinthians 10:18For he who commends himself, that man is not approved, but whom the Lord commends.
Colossians 1:10For you to walk worthily of the Lord for every desire to please, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing in the knowledge of God,
1 Timothy 5:10being testified in good works: if she has reared children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the feet of the sanctified, if she has relieved those who are afflicted, if she has followed every good work.
Matthew Henry on Mark 14:2-12
Christ Anointed at Bethany; Judas Engages to Betray Christ. 1 After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. 2 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people. 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 spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.… Read the whole commentary →