Mark 14:7
She 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.
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
In Context
6But Jesus said, Let her alone, why do ye give her uneasiness?
8She has done what she could: she has embalmed my body beforehand against the burial.
Cross References
Matthew 25:35for I was famishing, and ye gave me food; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in;
John 12:7Jesus therefore said, Let her alone, she hath reserved this as for the day of my burial.
John 16:5But now I am going away to Him that sent me, and yet none of you asketh me, Whither art thou going? but because I have said these things to you,
John 17:11And as I am to be no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to Thee, Holy Father, keep by thy name those whom Thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
2 Corinthians 9:13(While from the experience of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection to the gospel of Christ, and the liberality of your communication to them, and to all men.)
James 2:14What is the advantage, my brethren, if any one say that he has faith, and he hath not works, can faith alone 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 →