Mark 14:6

And Jesus said, Let her alone; why are you troubling her? she has done a beautiful thing to me.

Revised King James New Testament

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 have been given to the poor. And they reproved her.

7For you have the poor with you always, and whenever you wish you may do them good: but you will not always have me.

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Cross References

Matthew 26:10But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, Why do you trouble the woman? for she has done a good work for me.

Acts 9:36Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which translated is Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and acts of charity.

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

Colossians 1:10That you might walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please him in all things, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

1 Timothy 5:10Having a reputation for good works; if she has brought up her children, if she has shown hospitality to strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has devoted herself to 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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