Mark 14:6
But Jesus said, Let her be; why are you troubling her? she has done a kind act to me.
Bible in Basic English
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 came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
Matthew 26:10But Jesus, seeing it, said to them, Why are you troubling the woman? she has done a kind act to me.
Acts 9:36Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, that is, Dorcas: this woman was given to good works and acts of mercy at all times.
2 Corinthians 10:18For the Lord's approval of a man is not dependent on his opinion of himself, but on the Lord's opinion of him.
Colossians 1:10Living uprightly in the approval of the Lord, giving fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
1 Timothy 5:10And if witness is given of her good works; if she has had the care of children, if she has been kind to travellers, washing the feet of the saints, helping those who are in trouble, giving herself to good works.
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 →