Mark 14:6

But he, Jeshu, said, Let her alone; why do you trouble her? A good work hath she wrought upon me.

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

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

5for it could have been sold for more than three hundred dinoreen, and given to the poor. And they were angry with her.

7For in all time you have the poor with you, and, when you will, you can do them good; but I am not at all time with you.

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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.

Acts 9:36BUT there was a certain disciple in Joppa the city, whose name was Tabitha. This was rich in good works and in alms which she had done.

2 Corinthians 10:18For it is not he who glorifieth himself who is approved, but he who is glorified of the Lord.

Colossians 1:10and may walk according to that which is just, and may please Aloha in all good works, and may yield fruit, and increase in the knowledge of Aloha;

1 Timothy 5:10and who hath the testimony of good works: if she have brought up children, if she have received guests, if she have washed the feet of the saints, if she have cheered the afflicted, if she have walked in every gracious 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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