Mark 14:6

But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why are you causing trouble for her? She has done a good deed to me.

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.

In Context

5It could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and the money could have been given to the poor.” So they began scolding her.

7For you always have the poor with you, and you can do good to them whenever you want, but you will not always have me.

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Cross References

Matthew 26:10Aware of this, Jesus said to them, “Why are you causing trouble for this woman? She has done a good deed to me.

Acts 9:36Now in Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (which means “Dorcas”). She was always doing good works and charitable acts.

2 Corinthians 10:18For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.

Colossians 1:10so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord with every desire to please him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

1 Timothy 5:10and has a reputation for good works, that is, if she has brought up children, shown hospitality, washed the feet of the saints, helped the afflicted, and devoted herself to every good work.

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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