Mark 14:6

And Jesus said: Let her alone; why do ye trouble her? She wrought a good work on me.

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

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

5For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denaries, and given to the poor. And they murmured at her.

7For the poor ye have always with you, and when ye will ye can do good to them; but me ye have not always.

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Cross References

Matthew 26:10And Jesus knowing it, said to them: Why trouble ye the woman? For she wrought a good work upon me.

Acts 9:36And there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which interpreted is called Dorcas. This woman was full of good works, and of alms, which she did.

2 Corinthians 10:18For not he that commends himself is approved, but he whom the Lord commends.

Colossians 1:10that ye may walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, bringing forth fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

1 Timothy 5:10well reported of for good works; if she brought up children, if she lodged strangers, if she washed the feet of the saints, if she relieved the afflicted, if she 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 →

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