Mark 14:8

This woman did what she could; she undertook beforehand to anoint My body for burial.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you are able to do them good; but you do not always have Me.

9And assuredly I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what this woman did will also be spoken as a memorial of her.” 1 Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus

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Cross References

Luke 23:53And having taken it down, he wrapped it in a linen cloth, and put it in a tomb cut out of rock, where no one had ever lain before.

John 19:32Then the soldiers came and they broke the legs of the first man, and of the other who was crucified with Him.

2 Corinthians 8:12For if there is first a readiness, it is acceptable according to what one has, and not according to what he does not have.

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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