Mark 14:8

She did what she could. She has perfumed my body for the burying before the fact.

Family 35 New Testament

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

9Assuredly I tell you, wherever this Gospel may be proclaimed throughout the whole world, what she has done will also be told as a memorial to her.”

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Cross References

Luke 23:53Then he took it down, wrapped it in linen, and placed it in a tomb cut out of rock, where no one had ever been laid.

John 19:32Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man and of the other one who had been crucified with Him.

2 Corinthians 8:12(because when the intention is presented, it is acceptable according to what one may have, not 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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