Mark 14:8
She applied what she had to anoint my body. She did it beforehand for the burial.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
In Context
Cross References
1 Chronicles 28:2Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brothers, and my people. As for me, it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of LORD, and for the footstool of our God. And I had made
2 Chronicles 31:20And thus Hezekiah did throughout all Judah. And he wrought that which was good and right and faithful before LORD his God.
Psalms 110:3Thy people offer themselves willingly in the day of thy power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning thou have the dew of thy youth.
Luke 23:53And having taken it down, he wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulcher cut in rock, of which no man was yet lain.
John 19:32The soldiers therefore came, and indeed broke the legs of the first, and of the other man who was crucified with him.
2 Corinthians 8:12For if the willingness is present, it is acceptable to the extent if some man has, not to the extent he does not have.
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 →