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Mark 14:8 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying. "

Mark 14:8

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6 But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me.

7 For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.

8 She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying.

9 Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News may be preached throughout the whole world, that which this woman has done will also be spoken of for a memorial of her.”

10 Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might deliver him to them.

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Mark 14:1

"It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception and kill him."

Mark 14:2

"For they said, “Not during the feast, because there might be a riot among the people.”"

Mark 14:3

"While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard—very costly. She broke the jar and poured it over his head."

Mark 14:4

"But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, “Why has this ointment been wasted?"

Mark 14:5

"For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor.” So they grumbled against her."

Mark 14:6

"But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me."

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