Mark 14:7
For you always have the poor among you, and whenever you choose you can do acts of kindness to them; but me you have not always.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
8What she could she did: she has perfumed my body in preparation for my burial.
Cross References
Matthew 25:35For when I was hungry, you gave me food; when I was thirsty, you gave me drink; when I was homeless, you gave me a welcome;
John 12:7But Jesus interposed. "Do not blame her," He said, "allow her to have kept it for the time of my preparation for burial.
John 16:5But now I an returning to Him who sent me; and not one of you asks me where I am going.
John 17:11I am now no longer in the world, but they are in the world and I am coming to Thee. "Holy Father, keep them true to Thy name--the name which Thou hast given me to bear--that they may be one, even as we are.
2 Corinthians 9:13For, by the practical proof of it which you exhibit in this service, you cause God to be extolled for your fidelity to your professed adherence to the Good News of the Christ, and for the liberality of your contributions for them and for all who are in need,
James 2:14What good is it, my brethren, if a man professes to have faith, and yet his actions do not correspond? Can such faith save him?
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 →