John 12:7

Geneva Bible (1560)

Then said Iesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying she kept it.

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  • Ps 109:31 : 31 For he will stand at the right hand of the poore, to saue him from them that woulde condemne his soule.
  • Zech 3:2 : 2 And the Lord said vnto Satan, The Lord reprooue thee, O Satan: euen the Lord that hath chosen Ierusalem, reprooue thee. Is not this a brand taken out of the fire?
  • Matt 26:10 : 10 And Iesus knowing it, sayde vnto them, Why trouble yee the woman? For shee hath wrought a good woorke vpon me.
  • Matt 26:12 : 12 For in that shee powred this oyntment on my bodie, shee did it to burie me.
  • Matt 27:57-60 : 57 And when the euen was come, there came a riche man of Arimathea, named Ioseph, who had also himselfe bene Iesus disciple. 58 He went to Pilate, & asked ye body of Iesus. Then Pilate commanded ye body to be deliuered. 59 So Ioseph tooke the body, and wrapped it in a cleane linnen cloth, 60 And put it in his new tombe, which he had hewen out in a rocke, and rolled a great stone to the doore of the sepulchre, and departed.
  • Mark 14:6 : 6 But Iesus saide, Let her alone: why trouble yee her? Shee hath wrought a good worke on me.
  • Mark 15:42-47 : 42 And nowe when the night was come (because it was the day of the preparation that is before the Sabbath) 43 Ioseph of Arimathea, an honorable counsellour, which also looked for the kingdome of God, came, and went in boldly vnto Pilate, and asked the body of Iesus. 44 And Pilate marueiled, if he were already dead, and called vnto him the Centurion, and asked of him whether he had bene any while dead. 45 And when he knewe the trueth of the Centurion, he gaue the body to Ioseph: 46 Who bought a linnen cloth, & tooke him downe, and wrapped him in the linnen cloth, and laide him in a tombe that was hewen out of a rocke, and rolled a stone vnto the doore of the sepulchre: 47 And Marie Magdalene, and Marie Ioses mother, behelde where he should be layed.
  • Luke 23:50 : 50 And beholde, there was a man named Ioseph, which was a counseller, a good man and a iust.
  • John 19:38-42 : 38 And after these things, Ioseph of Arimathea (who was a disciple of Iesus, but secretly for feare of the Iewes) besought Pilate that he might take downe the bodie of Iesus; Pilate gaue him licence. He came then and tooke Iesus body. 39 And there came also Nicodemus (which first came to Iesus by night) & brought of myrrhe and aloes mingled together about an hundreth pound. 40 Then tooke they the body of Iesus, and wrapped it in linnen clothes with the odours, as the maner of the Iewes is to burie. 41 And in that place where Iesus was crucified, was a garden, and in the garden a newe sepulchre, wherein was neuer man yet laid. 42 There then laide they Iesus, because of the Iewes Preparation day, for the sepulchre was neere.

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  • Mark 14:2-9
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    2But they sayde, Not in the feast day, least there be any tumult among the people.

    3And when hee was in Bethania in the house of Simon the leper, as he sate at table, there came a woman hauing a boxe of oyntment of spikenarde, very costly, and shee brake the boxe, and powred it on his head.

    4Therefore some disdained among themselues, and sayde, To what ende is this waste of oyntment?

    5For it might haue bene sold for more then three hundreth pence, and bene giuen vnto the poore, and they murmured against her.

    6But Iesus saide, Let her alone: why trouble yee her? Shee hath wrought a good worke on me.

    7For yee haue the poore with you alwaies, and when yee will yee may doe them good, but me yee shall not haue alwaies.

    8She hath done that she coulde: she came afore hand to anoynt my body to the burying.

    9Verely I say vnto you, wheresoeuer this Gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done, shalbe spoken of in remembrance of her.

  • Matt 26:7-13
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    7There came vnto him a woman, which had a boxe of very costly oyntment, and powred it on his head, as he sate at the table.

    8And when his disciples sawe it, they had indignation, saying, What needed this waste?

    9For this oyntment might haue bene solde for much, and bene giuen to the poore.

    10And Iesus knowing it, sayde vnto them, Why trouble yee the woman? For shee hath wrought a good woorke vpon me.

    11For yee haue the poore alwayes with you, but me shall yee not haue alwaies.

    12For in that shee powred this oyntment on my bodie, shee did it to burie me.

    13Verely I say vnto you, wheresoeuer this Gospel shall bee preached throughout all the worlde, there shall also this that shee hath done, be spoken of for a memoriall of her.

  • John 12:5-6
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    5Why was not this oyntment sold for three hundreth pence, and giuen to the poore?

    6Nowe he said this, not that he cared for the poore, but because hee was a theefe, and had the bagge, and bare that which was giuen.

  • John 12:8
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    8For the poore alwayes yee haue with you, but me ye shall not haue alwayes.

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    3Then tooke Mary a pound of oyntment of Spikenarde very costly, and anoynted Iesus feete, and wiped his feete with her heare, and the house was filled with the sauour of the oyntment.

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    37And beholde, a woman in the citie, which was a sinner, when she knewe that Iesus sate at table in the Pharises house, shee brought a boxe of oyntment.

    38And shee stoode at his feete behinde him weeping, and began to wash his feete with teares, and did wipe them with the heares of her head, and kissed his feete, and anoynted them with the oyntment.

    39Nowe when the Pharise which bade him, saw it, he spake within himselfe, saying, If this man were a Prophet, hee woulde surely haue knowen who, and what maner of woman this is which toucheth him: for she is a sinner.

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    44Then he turned to the woman, and said vnto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entred into thine house, and thou gauest mee no water to my feete: but she hath washed my feete with teares, and wiped them with the heares of her head.

    45Thou gauest me no kisse: but she, since the time I came in, hath not ceased to kisse my feete.

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    43Then he called vnto him his disciples, and said vnto them, Verely I say vnto you, that this poore widowe hath cast more in, then all they which haue cast into the treasurie.

    44For they all did cast in of their superfluitie: but she of her pouertie did cast in all that she had, euen all her liuing.

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    3And he sayd, Of a trueth I say vnto you, that this poore widowe hath cast in more then they all.

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    12Nowe when hee came neere to the gate of the citie, behold, there was a dead man caried out, who was the onely begotten sonne of his mother, which was a widowe, and much people of the citie was with her.

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    35And Iesus wept.

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