John 12:7

But Jeshu said, Let her alone. For the day of my burial had she kept it.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.

In Context

6But this he said, not because for the poor he had care, but because he was a thief, and the purse was with him, and whatever fell into it he carried.

8In all time the poor you have with you; but me you have not at all time.

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Cross References

Matthew 26:10But Jeshu knew, and said to them, Why grieve you the woman? a good work hath she wrought upon me.

Matthew 27:57BUT when it was evening, there came a rich man from Rometha, whose name was Jauseph, who himself also was a disciple of Jeshu.

Mark 15:42AND when it was evening of the preparation which is before the shabath,

John 19:38After these Jauseph, he who was of Rometha, begged of Pilatos, for he was a disciple of Jeshu, but secretly for fear of the Jihudoyee, that he might take the body of Jeshu: and Pilatos permitted. And he came and took the body of Jeshu.

Matthew Henry on John 12:2-12

Mary Anoints Christ's Feet; Hypocrisy of Judas; Indignation of the Chief Priests. 1 Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. 2 There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him. 3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment. 4 Then… Read the whole commentary →

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