Mark 14:8

This woman has poured that oil on my body to get it ready to be buried.

Barkly (portions)

In The King James Version

She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.

In Context

7You will always have people that have no money living in your community, and you can be kind to them any time you like. But I will not be with you much longer.

9What I say now is true. People will go everywhere in the world and wherever they go they will tell my story. And they will talk about what this woman has done for me today, and people will remember her.” And you can read this story in Matthew 26:14-16 and in Luke 22:3-6

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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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