7Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
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For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple: …
When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.
For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)In these verses we have, I. The kind visit our Lord Jesus paid to his friends at Bethany, John 12:1. He came up out of the country, six days before the passover , and took up at Bethany, a town which, according to the computation of our metropolis, lay so near Jerusalem as to be within the bills of mortality. He lodged here with his friend Lazarus, whom he had lately raised from the dead . His com…
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