Mark 14:8

Truly she did a good thing for me. Today she poured this good sweet perfume on my body in order to do good for my burial (?) later.

Nyangumarta (portions)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7Poor people will always be here with you. Day after day you can give them money. I will not be with you a long time. I will stay a little while, after that I will die.

9This word I tell you is a true, everywhere they will tell all people about me, they will tell them also this woman did this for me. They will remember this woman.”

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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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