John 12:7

Then said Iesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying she kept it.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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

In Context

6Nowe he said this, not that he cared for the poore, but because hee was a theefe, and had the bagge, and bare that which was giuen.

8For the poore alwayes yee haue with you, but me ye shall not haue alwayes.

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Cross References

Psalms 109:31For he will stand at the right hand of the poore, to saue him from them that woulde condemne his soule.

Matthew 26:10And Iesus knowing it, sayde vnto them, Why trouble yee the woman? for shee hath wrought a good woorke vpon me.

Matthew 27:57And when the euen was come, there came a riche man of Arimathea, named Ioseph, who had also himselfe bene Iesus disciple.

Mark 15:42And nowe when the night was come (because it was the day of the preparation that is before the Sabbath)

John 19:38And after these things, Ioseph of Arimathea (who was a disciple of Iesus, but secretly for feare of the Iewes) besought Pilate that he might take downe the bodie of Iesus. And Pilate gaue him licence. He came then and tooke Iesus body.

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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