Mark 14:8
Good News Translation
She did what she could; she poured perfume on my body to prepare it ahead of time for burial.

New Revised Standard Version
She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for its burial.

Contemporary English Version
She has done all she could by pouring perfume on my body to prepare it for burial.

New American Bible
She has done what she could. She has anticipated anointing my body for burial.

Douay-Rheims Bible
She hath done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my body for the burial.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

She hath done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my body for the burial.

hath done.

1 Chronicles 28:2,3 And the king rising up, and standing said: Hear me, my brethren and my people: I had a thought to have built a house, in which the ark of the Lord, and the footstool of our God might rest: and prepared all things for the building. . . .

1 Chronicles 29:1-17 And king David said to all the assembly: Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is as yet young and tender: and the work is great, for a house is prepared not for man, but for God. . . .

2 Chronicles 31:20,21 So Ezechias did all things which we have said in all Juda, and wrought that which was good, and right, and truth, before the Lord his God, . . .

2 Chronicles 34:19-33 And when he had heard the words of the law, he rent his garments: . . .

Psalm 110:3 With thee is the principality in the day of thy strength: in the brightness of the saints: from the womb before the day star I begot thee.

2 Corinthians 8:1-3,12 Now we make known unto you, brethren, the grace of God that hath been given in the churches of Macedonia. . . .

she is.

Mark 15:42-47 And when evening was now come (because it was the Parasceve, that is, the day before the sabbath), . . .

Mark 16:1 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought sweet spices, that coming, they might anoint Jesus.

Luke 23:53-56 And taking him down, he wrapped him in fine linen and laid him in a sepulchre that was hewed in stone, wherein never yet any man had been laid. . . .

Luke 24:1-3 And on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came to the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared. . . .

John 12:7 Jesus therefore said: Let her alone, that she may keep it against the day of my burial.

John 19:32-42 The soldiers therefore came: and they broke the legs of the first, and of the other that was crucified with him. . . .

Context
Jesus Anointed at Bethany
7For the poor you have always with you: and whensoever you will, you may do them good: but me you have not always. 8She hath done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my body for the 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.…
Cross References
Matthew 26:12
For she in pouring this ointment on my body hath done it for my burial.

John 19:40
They took therefore the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths, with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.

Mark 14:7
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