Mark 14:8
She did what she could; she beforehand anointed my body for the preparation for burial.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
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
Luke 23:53And taking it down, he wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in the rock, where no one was yet laid.
John 19:32The soldiers came, therefore, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him.
2 Corinthians 8:12For if there be first the willing mind, it is accepted according to what a man has, not according to 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 →