Mark 14:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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

She hath done what she could - a noble testimony, embodying a principle of immense importance.

She is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying or as in John (John 12:7) "Against the day of She is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying - or, as in John (John 12:7), "Against the day of my burying hath she kept this." Not that she, dear heart, thought of His burial, much less reserved any of her nard to anoint her dead Lord. But as the time was so near at hand when that office would have to be performed, and she was not to have that privilege even after the spices were brought for the purpose (Mark 16:1), He lovingly regards it as done now.

Mark 14:8

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