Mark 14:6

But Jesus said, Let her alone, why do ye give her uneasiness?

1770 John Worsley NT

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 above three hundred pence, and given to the poor. And they inveighed against her.

7She has done a kind office to me. For ye have the poor always with you, and may do them good, whenever ye will; but me ye have not always.

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Cross References

Matthew 26:10But Jesus, knowing what passed, said to them, Why do ye give the woman uneasiness? for she has done a good office to me:

Acts 9:36And there was at Joppa a certain female disciple named Tabitha, who by interpretation is called in Greek Dorcas: and she was full of good works and alms-deeds.

2 Corinthians 10:18For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but he whom the Lord commendeth.

Colossians 1:10that ye may walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

1 Timothy 5:10having been the wife of one man: in repute for good actions, if she have educated children, if she have entertained strangers, if she have washed the feet of saints, if she have relieved the afflicted, and diligently followed 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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