Mark 14:8
6 But Jesus said, “Leave her alone; why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful deed to Me.
7 The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them whenever you want. But you will not always have Me.
She has done what she could to anoint My body in advance of My burial.
9 And truly I tell you, wherever the gospel is preached in all the world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”
10 Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Jesus to them.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- She has done what she could to anoint My body in advance of My burial.
- KJV
- She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
- WEB
- She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying.
- ASV
- She hath done what she could; she hath anointed my body beforehand for the burying.
- DARBY
- What *she* could she has done. She has beforehand anointed my body for the burial.
- BLB
- She did what she could. She came beforehand to anoint My body for the burial.
- ÅB
- Hun gjorde det hun kunne; hun salvet forut mitt legeme til min jordeferd.
- OTB
- Hun har gjort det hun kunne; hun har salvet kroppen min til forberedelse for begravelsen.
- B1930
- Hun gjorde det hun kunde; hun salvet forut mitt legeme til min jordeferd.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Corinthians 8:12
For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.
Read in contextJohn 12:7
“Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “She has kept this perfume in preparation for the day of My burial.
Read in contextMark 15:42–16:1
Now it was already evening. Since it was Preparation Day (that is, the day before the Sabbath),
Read in contextLuke 23:53–24:3
Then he took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and placed it in a tomb cut into the rock, where no one had yet been laid.
Read in context2 Corinthians 8:1–3
Now, brothers, we want you to know about the grace that God has given the churches of Macedonia.
Read in context2 Chronicles 31:20–21
So this is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what was good and upright and true before the LORD his God.
Read in context1 Chronicles 29:1–17
Then King David said to the whole assembly, “My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen, is young and inexperienced. The task is great because this palace is not for man, but for the LORD God.
Read in context2 Chronicles 34:19–33
When the king heard the words of the Law, he tore his clothes
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