Mark 14:8

She did what she could: she came aforehand to anoint my body for the burial.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

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 you have the poor always with you, and when you wish, you are able to do them good: but you have not me always.

9Truly I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel may be preached in all the world, that which she did shall indeed be spoken of for a memorial of her.

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Cross References

Luke 23:53And having taken it down, he wrapped it in linen, and placed it in a hewn sepulcher, where no one ever was laid.

John 19:32Then the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first one, and of the other one being crucified along with Him.

2 Corinthians 8:12For if there is first a willing mind, it is acceptable according to what one may have, and not according to what he has 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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