Mark 14:6

But Jesus said: “Leave her alone! Why are you bothering her? She has done something useful to me.

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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

5It could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor!” And they started censuring her.

7You will always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do them good; but you will not always have me.

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Cross References

Matthew 26:10But being aware Jesus said to them: “Why are you bothering the woman? She has done something beautiful to me.

Acts 9:36Now there was a certain disciple in Joppa named Tabitha, which is translated Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and charitable deeds that she kept doing.

2 Corinthians 10:18Because it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

Colossians 1:10in order for you to walk worthily of the Lord, pleasing Him in every way, being fruitful in every good work and growing into the real knowledge of God;

1 Timothy 5:10known for good works—she brought up children, she lodged strangers, she washed saints' feet, she relieved the afflicted, she devoted herself to 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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