Mark 14:8 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 14:8

She has done what she could to anoint My body in advance of My burial.

BSB

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ASV

She hath done what she could; she hath anointed my body beforehand for the burying.

KJV

She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

She hath done what she could,.... What she had in her heart, and in the power of her hands to do; she hath done according to her ability, and her good will; and if she had not done it now, she could not have done it at all. She is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying; or, "as if it was to bury me", as the Syriac version renders it.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

To anoint my body to the burying - Εις τον ενταφιασμον, against, or in reference to, its embalmment, thus pointing out my death and the embalmment of my body, for the bodies of persons of distinction were wrapped up in aromatics to preserve them from putrefaction. See on Mat 26:12 (note).

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1857)

This chapter begins that part of Mark's Gospel, which describes our Lord's sufferings and death. Hitherto we have chiefly seen our Savior as our prophet and teacher. We have now to see Him as our High Priest. Hitherto we have had to consider His miracles and sayings. We have now to consider His vicarious sacrifice on the cross. Let us first observe in these verses, how God can disappoint the designs of wicked men, and over-rule them to His own glory .

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὃ	ho	What	G3739 →
ἔσχεν	eschen	she had	G2192 →
ἐποίησεν,	epoiēsen	she performed,	G4160 →
προέλαβεν	proelaben	She came beforehand	G4301 →
μυρίσαι	murisai	to anoint	G3462 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
σῶμά	sōma	body	G4983 →
μου	mou	of Mine	G3165 →
εἰς	eis	for	G1519 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
ἐνταφιασμόν.	entaphiasmon	burial.	G1780 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Corinthians 8:12
For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.
leads to
- Mark 12:42–44
  Then one poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amounted to a small fraction of a denarius.
- 2 Corinthians 9:7
  Each one should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not out of regret or compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver.
- Exodus 35:29
  So all the men and women of the Israelites whose hearts prompted them brought a freewill offering to the LORD for all the work that the LORD through Moses had commanded them to do.
- Luke 21:1–4
  Then Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury,
- Exodus 35:21–22
  And everyone whose heart stirred him and whose spirit prompted him came and brought an offering to the LORD for the work on the Tent of Meeting, for all its services, and for the…
Through
Luke 23:53
Then he took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and placed it in a tomb cut into the rock, where no one had yet been laid.
leads to
- Matthew 27:59–60
  So Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
- Isaiah 53:9
  He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.
Through
John 12:7
“Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “She has kept this perfume in preparation for the day of My burial.
leads to
- Matthew 26:12
  By pouring this perfume on Me, she has prepared My body for burial.

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Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About Mark

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

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About Mark