Mark - 14:6



6 But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me.

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Explanation and meaning of 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.
But Jesus said: Let her alone, why do you molest her? She hath wrought a good work upon me.
And Jesus said, 'Let her alone; why are ye giving her trouble? a good work she wrought on me;
And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble you her? she has worked a good work on me.
But Jesus said, "Leave her alone: why are you troubling her? She has done a most gracious act towards me.
But Jesus said, Let her be; why are you troubling her? she has done a kind act to me.
But Jesus said: "Permit her. What is the reason that you trouble her? She has done a good deed for me.
"Leave her alone," said Jesus, as they began to find fault with her, "why are you troubling her? This is a beautiful deed that she has done for me.

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Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

And Jesus said, let her alone,.... Jesus knowing the secret indignation of some of his disciples, and their private murmurings at the woman, and their continual teasings of her, because of the expense of the ointment, said to them, as the Arabic and Ethiopic versions read; or "to the disciples", as the Persic, let the woman alone, cease to chide and reprove her for what she has done;
why trouble ye her? why do you grieve her, by charging her with imprudence and extravagance, as if she had been guilty of a very great crime? she is so far from it, that
she hath wrought a good work on me; she has done me an honour; expressed faith in me, and shown love to me, and ought to be commended, and not reproved; See Gill on Matthew 26:10.

And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me--It was good in itself, and so was acceptable to Christ; it was eminently seasonable, and so more acceptable still; and it was "what she could," and so most acceptable of all.

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