7For the poor you have always with you: and whensoever you will, you may do them good: but me you have not always.b
8She hath done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my body for burial.
9Amen, I say to you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, that also which she hath done, shall be told for a memorial of her.
Mark 14 is the pivot point of the Gospel, where the plot to kill Jesus moves from conspiracy to execution. The chapter opens with religious leaders scheming, then moves through a series of intimate and agonizing scenes: a woman anointing Jesus for burial, Judas agreeing to betray
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