Mark 14:8
She has done what she could; she has come beforehand to anoint my body for its burial.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
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
Luke 23:53And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulcher that had been hewed in rock, in which no one had yet been laid.
John 19:32Then came the soldiers and broke the legs of the first, and of the other that was crucified with him.
2 Corinthians 8:12For if there is a readiness of mind, one is accepted according to what he has, not according to what he has not.
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 →