Mark 14:6
But Jesus said: Let her alone, why do you molest her? She hath wrought a good work upon me.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Themanite : My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends, because you have not spoken the thing that is right before my, as my servant Job hath.
Matthew 26:10And Jesus knowing it, said to them: Why do you trouble this woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.
Acts 9:36And in Joppe there was a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.
2 Corinthians 10:18For not he who commendeth himself, is approved, but he, whom God commendeth.
Colossians 1:10That you may walk worthy of God, in all things pleasing; being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God:
1 Timothy 5:10Having testimony for her good works, if she have brought up children, if she have received to harbour, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have ministered to them that suffer tribulation, if she have diligently followed every good work.
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 →