8She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
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For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
And 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.
Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; …
And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God. …
Commentary
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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