Mark 14:6
But Jesus said, "Leave her alone: why are you troubling her? She has done a most gracious act towards me.
Weymouth NT (1912)
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
Cross References
Matthew 26:10But Jesus heard it, and said to them, "Why are you vexing her? For she has done a most gracious act towards me.
Acts 9:36Among the disciples at Jaffa was a woman called Tabitha, or, as the name may be translated, `Dorcas.' Her life was wholly devoted to the good and charitable actions which she was constantly doing.
2 Corinthians 10:18For it is not the man that commends himself who is really approved, but he whom the Lord commends.
Colossians 1:10so that your lives may be worthy of the Lord and perfectly pleasing to Him, while you exhibit the results of right action of every sort and grow into a fuller knowledge of God.
1 Timothy 5:10She must have been true to her one husband, and well reported of for good deeds, as having brought up children, received strangers hospitably, washed the feet of God's people, given relief to the distressed, and devoted herself to good works of every kind.
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 →