Mark 14:9
Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News may be preached throughout the whole world, that which this woman has done will also be spoken of for a memorial of her.”
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In The King James Version
In Context
8She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying.
Cross References
Psalms 112:6כּ For he will never be shaken. 2 ל The upright will be remembered forever. 1
Matthew 24:14+ 24:14. MP: Messiah provides “justice” to the Gentiles. (Is 42:1d) This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
Mark 16:15+ 16:15. MPr: Rabbinic Tradition says, in the hour when King Messiah comes, He will stand on the roof of the Temple and proclaim the hour of their deliverance has come. Those who believe will rejoice in the light that had risen upon them (Is 60:1), “Arise, shine, for thy light is come.” This light is for those who believe only (Is 60:2), “For darkness shall cover the earth.” In that same hour, God uses the light of the Messiah and of Israel to shine on all nations that they should walk in the light of Messiah and of Israel (Is 60:3), “The Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.” (Ps 139:23-24, 26 in Yalkut, vol. ii. Par. 359, p. 56 c.). (Ps 139:23-24) He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.
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 →