Mark 14:7
She has done a beautiful thing to me. For you always have the poor among you, and can show them kindness whenever you wish, but me you will not always have.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
6So they began upbraiding her, but Jesus said. "Let her alone. Why are you troubling her?
8She has done what she could. she has before time anointed my body for my burial.
Cross References
Matthew 25:35"‘For I was hungry, and you gave me food; I was thirsty, and you gave me drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in;
John 12:7used to purloin what was put in it. Then said Jesus. "Let her alone. Against the day of my burial has she kept this;
John 16:5"But now I go my way to Him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’
2 Corinthians 9:13For this ministration proves you. On account of it men glorify God for your faithfulness to your professions of the gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of your gifts to them and to all.
James 2:14My brothers, what good is it if any one says that he has faith, if he has no deeds? Can such faith save 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 →