Mark 14:8

She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand to prepare me for burial.

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

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.

9Truly I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of as a memorial to her.”

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Cross References

Luke 23:53Then he took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid it in a tomb hewn in a rock, where no one had ever been laid.

John 19:32So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man and of the other who had been crucified with him.

2 Corinthians 8:12For if the eager willingness is there, it is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does 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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