6And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
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And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)We have here instances, I. Of the kindness of Christ’s friends , and the provision made of respect and honour for him. Some friends he had, even in and about Jerusalem, that loved him, and never thought they could do enough for him, among whom, though Israel be not gathered, he is, and will be, glorious. 1. Here was one friend , that was so kind as to invite him to sup with him ; and he was so kin…
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