Mark 14:8
6 And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
7 For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
9 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.
10 And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests, to betray him unto 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 there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
Read in contextJohn 12:7
Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
Read in contextMark 15:42–16:1
And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,
Read in contextLuke 23:53–24:3
And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.
Read in context2 Corinthians 8:1–3
Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;
Read in context2 Chronicles 31:20–21
And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God.
Read in context1 Chronicles 29:1–17
Furthermore David the king said unto all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great: for the palace is not for man, but for the LORD God.
Read in context2 Chronicles 34:19–33
And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes.
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