Mark 14:8

I will die soon, and people will bury my body. This woman poured the perfume on me to get my body ready. She did a good thing.

Plain English 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

7You will always have poor people with you, and you can give them money whenever you want to. But I will not be here with you much longer.

9Listen. People will go everywhere in the world to tell people God’s story, and they will remember this woman and they will tell people about her too, and about the good thing she did today.”

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Cross References

John 19:32Pilate agreed, and he told the soldiers to break the men’s legs. They broke the legs of the men on each side of Jesus.

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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