Mark 14:8

(With) that which was hers she hath done this, and beforehand as for the funeral she hath anointed my body.

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

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 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.

9And Amen I say to you, That wheresoever my gospel shall be preached in the whole world, this also which she hath now done shall be told in memorial of her.

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Cross References

Luke 23:53and he took it down, and wrapped it in a cloth of linen, and laid it in a hewn sepulchre, in which no one had hitherto been laid.

John 19:32And the soldiers came, and brake the legs of the first, and of that other who was crucified with him;

2 Corinthians 8:12For if there be the will, according to what one hath, so is (he) accepted, and not according to what he hath not.

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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