But Jesus said, Let her alone: Why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.

[a]For ye have the poor with you always, and when ye will ye may do them good, but me ye shall not have always.

[b]She hath done that she could: she came aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.

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Footnotes

  1. 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.
  2. 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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