Mark 14:7
For yee haue the poore with you alwaies, and when yee will yee may doe them good, but me yee shall not haue alwaies.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
6But Iesus saide, Let her alone: why trouble yee her? shee hath wrought a good worke on me.
8She hath done that she coulde: she came afore hand to anoynt my body to the burying.
Cross References
Matthew 25:35For I was an hungred, and ye gaue me meate: I thirsted, and ye gaue me drinke: I was a stranger, and ye tooke me in vnto you.
John 12:7Then said Iesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying she kept it.
John 16:5But now I go my way to him that sent me, and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?
John 17:11And nowe am I no more in the world, but these are in the worlde, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keepe them in thy Name, euen them whome thou hast giuen mee, that they may bee one, as we are.
2 Corinthians 9:13(Which by the experiment of this ministration praise God for your voluntarie submission to the Gospell of Christ, and for your liberall distribution to them, and to all men)
James 2:14What auaileth it, my brethren, though a man saith he hath faith, when he hath no workes? can that faith saue him?
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 →