Mark 14:8

She has done what she could; she has perfumed my body beforehand for 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 always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them; but you will not always have me.

9And I tell you, wherever, in the whole world, the good news is proclaimed, what this woman has done will be told in memory of her.”

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Cross References

Psalms 110:3The day that you march to battle your people will follow you gladly young warriors in holy array, like dew-drops, born of the morning.

Luke 23:53and, when he had taken it down, he wrapped it in a linen sheet, and laid him in a tomb cut out of stone, in which no one had yet been buried.

John 19:32Accordingly the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man, and then those of the other who had been crucified with Jesus;

2 Corinthians 8:12For, where there is willingness, a person’s gift is valued by its comparison with what they have, and not with what they do 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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