Mark 14:8
She has done what she was able: she has put oil on my body to make it ready for its last resting-place.
Bible in Basic English
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 got up and said, Give ear to me, my brothers and my people; it was my desire to put up a house, a resting-place for the ark of the Lord's agreement, and for the foot-rest of our God; and I had got material ready for the building of it.
2 Chronicles 31:20This Hezekiah did through all Judah; he did what was good and right and true before the Lord his God.
Psalms 110:3Your people give themselves gladly in the day of your power; like the dew of the morning on the holy mountains is the army of your young men.
Luke 23:53And he took it down, and folding it in a linen cloth, he put it in a place cut in the rock for a dead body; and no one had ever been put in it.
John 19:32So the men of the army came, and the legs of the first were broken and then of the other who was put to death on the cross with Jesus:
2 Corinthians 8:12For if there is a ready mind, a man will have God's approval in the measure of what he has, and not of 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 →