Mark 14:3-9
1599 Geneva Bible
3 (A)And when he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at table, there came a woman having a box of ointment of Spikenard, very costly, and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
4 [a]Therefore some disdained among themselves, and said, To what end is this waste of ointment?
5 For it might have been sold for more than [b]three hundred pence, and been given unto the poor, and they murmured against her.
6 But Jesus said, Let her alone: Why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
7 [c]For ye have the poor with you always, and when ye will ye may do them good, but me ye shall not have always.
8 [d]She hath done that she could: she came 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 in remembrance of her.
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- Mark 14:4 Rash judgments are frustrated before God.
- Mark 14:5 Which is about six pounds English.
- Mark 14:7 Christ suffered himself to be anointed once or twice for certain considerations: but his will is to be daily anointed in the poor.
- Mark 14:8 This woman by the secret instinct of the Spirit, anointing Christ, setteth before men’s eyes, his death and burial which were at hand.
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