6"Leave her alone," said Jesus. "Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.


In Context

3 While he was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of a man known as Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head.

4 Some of those present were saying indignantly to one another, "Why this waste of perfume?

5 It could have been sold for more than a year's wages and the money given to the poor." And they rebuked her harshly.

6 "Leave her alone," said Jesus. "Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.

7 The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me.

8 She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial.

Mark 14:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:6And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

14:6But Jesus said: Let her alone, why do you molest her? She hath wrought a good work upon me.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

14:6But Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:6But Jesus said, Let her alone; why do ye trouble her? she has wrought a good work as to me;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

14:6But Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:6And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:6But Jesus said, |Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

14:6And Jesus said, 'Let her alone; why are ye giving her trouble? a good work she wrought on me;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:6And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble you her? she has worked a good work on me.