Mark 14:8
She hath done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my body for the burial.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
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
1 Chronicles 28:2And the king rising up, and standing said: Hear me, my brethren and my people: I had a thought to have built a house, in which the ark of the Lord, and the footstool of our God might rest: and prepared all things for the building.
2 Chronicles 31:20So Ezechias did all things which we have said in all Juda, and wrought that which was good, and right, and truth, before the Lord his God,
Psalms 110:3His work is praise and magnificence: and his justice continueth for ever and ever.
Luke 23:53And taking him down, he wrapped him in fine linen and laid him in a sepulchre that was hewed in stone, wherein never yet any man had been laid.
John 19:32The soldiers therefore came: and they broke the legs of the first, and of the other that was crucified with him.
2 Corinthians 8:12For if the will be forward, it is accepted according to that which a man hath: not according to that which he hath 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 →