Mark 14:8

She did what she could: she anointed my body in anticipation of my burial.

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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'll always have the poor with you, and you can help them whenever you want. But you won't always have me with you.

9I tell you the truth: wherever the good news is spread in the world, people will remember what she did.”

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 28:2King David got to his feet and said, “Listen to me, my brothers and my people! I really wanted to build a house as a resting place for the Ark of the Lord's Agreement, as a footstool for our God. So I made plans to build it.

2 Chronicles 31:20This is what Hezekiah did throughout the whole of Judah. He did what was good, right, and true before the Lord his God.

Psalms 110:3Your people willingly follow you on the day when your power is revealed on the holy mountains, renewed in strength every morning like dew at dawn.

Luke 23:53Once he'd taken it down, he wrapped it in a linen cloth. He laid Jesus in an unused tomb cut into the rock.

John 19:32So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first one and then the other of those crucified with Jesus,

2 Corinthians 8:12If the willingness is there, it's fine to give what you have, not what you don't 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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