A moment in scripture
Mark 14:6
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And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
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The surrounding passage
- Mark 14:4
And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
- 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.
- Mark 14:7
For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
- Mark 14:8
She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.