KJV King James Version
She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Mark 14:8
She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
She has done what she could to anoint My body in advance of My burial.
WEB World English Bible
She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying.
ASV American Standard Version
She hath done what she could; she hath anointed my body beforehand for the burying.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
what she could she did, she anticipated to anoint my body for the embalming.
Surrounding context — Mark 14
5 For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
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.
8 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.
11 And when they heard [it], they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.
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Original-language word links
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ὃG3739 · hos, hēwhichἔσχενG2192 · echōto have/beἐποίησεν,G4160 · poieōto do/make: doπροέλαβενG4301 · prolambanōto take beforehandμυρίσαιG3462 · murizōto anointτὸG3588 · hothe/this/whoσῶμάG4983 · sōmabodyμουG3165 · memeεἰςG1519 · eistowardτὸνG3588 · hothe/this/whoἐνταφιασμόν.G1780 · entaphiasmosburial
Cross-references
2 Corinthians 8:12For if there be first a willing mind, [it is] accepted according to that a man hath, [and] not according to that he hath not.John 12:7Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.2 Chronicles 31:20-21And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought [that which was] good and right and truth before the LORD his God.Mark 15:42And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,2 Corinthians 8:1-3Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;Luke 23:53And 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.2 Chronicles 34:19-33And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes.1 Chronicles 29:1-17Furthermore 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.1 Chronicles 28:2-3Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: [As for me], I [had] in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the building:Psalm 110:3Thy people [shall be] willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.John 19:32-42Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him.
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