Mark 14:8

She has done what she could: she has embalmed my body beforehand against the burial.

1770 John Worsley NT

In The King James Version

She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.

In Context

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.

9Verily I tell you, wheresoever this gospel is preached, through all the world, what she hath done shall also be told for a memorial of her.

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Cross References

Luke 23:53and he took it down and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre hewn in stone, where no one had ever yet been laid.

John 19:32So the soldiers came, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other that was crucified with Him. But coming to Jesus,

2 Corinthians 8:12For if there be first a willing mind, any me is accepted according to what he hath, not according to what he hath not.

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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