Mark 14:8
she did what she could, she anticipated to anoint My body for the embalming.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
In Context
Cross References
1 Chronicles 28:2And David the king rises on his feet and says, “Hear me, my brothers and my people, I [had it] with my heart to build a house of rest for the Ark of the Covenant of YHWH, and for the footstool of our God, and I prepared to build,
2 Chronicles 31:20And Hezekiah does thus in all Judah, and does that which is good, and that which is right, and that which is true, before his God YHWH;
Psalms 110:3Your people [are] free-will gifts in the day of Your strength, in the honors of holiness, || From the womb, from the morning, || You have the dew of Your youth.
Luke 23:53and having taken it down, he wrapped it in fine linen, and placed it in a hewn out tomb, where no one was yet laid.
John 19:32The soldiers, therefore, came, and they indeed broke the legs of the first and of the other who was crucified with Him,
2 Corinthians 8:12for if the willing mind is present, it is well-accepted according to that which anyone may have, not according to that which 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 →