John 12:7

But Jesus said: Let her alone; she hath kept it for the day of my burial.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

6And this he said, not be cause he cared for the poor, but because he was thief, and held the purse, and carried what was put in it.

8For the poor are always with you, but I am not with you always.

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Cross References

Matthew 26:10But Jesus knew their dissatisfaction, and said to them: Why trouble ye the woman? She hath performed a good deed towards me.

Matthew 27:57And when it was evening, there came a rich man of Ramath, whose name was a Joseph, who was also a disciple of Jesus.

Mark 15:42And, as it was the eve of preparation, which precedeth the sabbath,

John 19:38After these things, Joseph of Ramath, (for he was a disciple of Jesus, and kept concealed through fear of the Jews,) requested of Pilate, that he might take away the body of Jesus. And Pilate permitted. And he came, and bore away the body of Jesus.

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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