Mark 14:6

But Jesus said: Let her alone; why trouble ye her? She hath done an excellent act towards me.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.

In Context

5For it might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and been given to the poor. And they were indignant at her.

7For the poor ye have always with you; and when ye please, ye can do them kind offices: but I am not always with you.

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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.

Acts 9:36And there was in the city of Joppa, a certain female disciple named Tabitha; and she was rich in good works, and in the alms which she did.

2 Corinthians 10:18For not he who praiseth himself, is approved; but he whom the Lord praiseth.

Colossians 1:10that ye may walk as is right, and may please God with all good works, and may yield fruits, and grow in the knowledge of God;

1 Timothy 5:10and hath a reputation for good works; if she have trained up children, if she have entertained strangers, if she have washed the feet of saints, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have walked in every good work.

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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