Mark 14:7
for ye have the poor always with you, and whenever ye would ye can do them good; but me ye have not always.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
6But Jesus said, Let her alone; why do ye trouble her? she has wrought a good work as to me;
8What *she* could she has done. She has beforehand anointed my body for the burial.
Cross References
Matthew 25:35for I hungered, and ye gave me to eat; I thirsted, and ye gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in;
John 12:7Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to have kept this for the day of my preparation for burial;
John 16:5But now I go to him that has sent me, and none of you demands of me, Where goest thou?
John 17:11And I am no longer in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name which thou hast given me, that they may be one as we.
2 Corinthians 9:13they glorifying God through the proof of this ministration, by reason of your subjection, by profession, to the glad tidings of the Christ, and your free-hearted liberality in communicating towards them and towards all;
James 2:14What [is] the profit, my brethren, if any one say he have faith, but have not works? can faith save him?
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 →