Matthew 26:10
And Jesus knowing it, said to them: Why do you trouble this woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
9For this might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
11For the poor you have always with you: but me you have not always.
Cross References
Nehemiah 2:18And I shewed them how the hand of my God was good with me, and the king's words, which he had spoken to me, and I said: Let us rise up, and build. And their hands were strengthened in good.
Mark 14:6But Jesus said: Let her alone, why do you molest her? She hath wrought a good work upon me.
2 Corinthians 9:8And God is able to make all grace abound in you; that ye always, having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work,
Galatians 5:12I would they were even cut off, who trouble you.
Ephesians 2:10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus in good works, which God hath prepared that we should walk in them.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 26:7-14
Christ Anointed at Bethany. 6 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, 7 There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat. 8 But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste? 9 For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor. 10 When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me. 11 For ye have… Read the whole commentary →