Mark 14:8
She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
In Context
Cross References
1 Chronicles 28:2Then David the king stood up on his feet, and said, "Hear me, my brothers, and my people! As for me, it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and for the footstool of our God; and I had prepared for the building.
2 Chronicles 31:20Hezekiah did so throughout all Judah; and he worked that which was good and right and faithful before the Lord his God.
Psalms 110:3Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array.Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.
Luke 23:53He took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and placed him in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been placed.
John 19:32Therefore the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him;
2 Corinthians 8:12For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you do not have.
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 →