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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
After two days was [the feast of] the passover,.... That is, two days after Christ had delivered the foregoing discourse concerning the destruction of the temple at Jerusalem, was the feast of the passover; which was kept in commemoration of God's passing over the houses of the Israelites, when he destroyed the firstborn of Egypt, and made way for...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
In this chapter begins the account which this evangelist gives of the death and sufferings of our Lord Jesus, which we are all concerned to be acquainted, not only with the history of, but with the mystery of. Here is, I. The plot of the chief priests and scribes against Christ, ver. 1, 2. II. The anointing of Christ's head at a supper in Bethany,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people. And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, A well-known person. There were plenty of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But they said not on the feast day,.... The feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread, which was nigh at hand, and would be two days hence, when there would be a great concourse of people from all parts to keep it: and therefore they did not choose to seize him, and put him to death at that time, lest there should be an uproar of the people;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And being in Bethany,.... A place about two miles from Jerusalem, whither he retired after he had took his leave of the temple, and had predicted its destruction; a place he often went to, and from, the last week of his life; having some dear friends, and familiar acquaintance there, as Lazarus, and his two sisters, Martha and Mary, and the person...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. It does not want any “it,” “poured on his head.” The liquid nard flowed over his locks, and, as it was with Aaron, it went, doubtless, down his beard to the utmost skirts of his garments.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And there were some that had indignation within themselves,.... The Syriac version reads, "some of the disciples": agreeably to Matthew 26:8, particularly Judas, and others might be incensed by his means: and said, why was this waste of the ointment made? [See comments on Matthew 26:8].
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made? Matthew says that they were disciples. Shame upon them. The ointment was put to its proper use. It was more wasted when it was in the box than when it was out of it, for it was doing nothing inside the alabaster box. But when it came out,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence,.... Which, was to the value of our money nine pounds, seven shillings, and sixpence: and given to the poor; which was thought to be a better way of expending it, than by pouring it on the head of Christ: and they murmured against her: that she should lavish so much money away in such...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her. And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me. Or “in me.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For ye have the poor with you always,.... [See comments on Matthew 26:11]; and whensoever ye will ye may do them good; by feeding them when hungry, clothing them when naked, and supplying them with the necessaries of life: but me ye have not always; meaning, with respect to his bodily presence, which, in a short time, would be removed from them,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For ye have the poor with you always, If you help them one day, they are poor, and they want helping the next. Or if you help them and leave them, leaving them because they go home to God, there are other poor people sure to come, for they will never cease out of the land. “Ye have the poor with you always.” Mar_14:7. And whensoever ye will ye may...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
She hath done what she could,.... What she had in her heart, and in the power of her hands to do; she hath done according to her ability, and her good will; and if she had not done it now, she could not have done it at all. She is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying; or, "as if it was to bury me", as the Syriac version renders it....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying. Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her. And it is so to this day. Christ’s gospel is preached tonight, and this woman’s love will be...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Verily I say unto you,.... And you may assure yourselves of the truth of it: wheresoever this Gospel, of the death and resurrection of Christ, shall be preached throughout the whole world, as it shall be, [this] also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her; in remembrance of her, and her work, and in commendation of her faith,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve,.... Apostles of Christ; who was the principal person that had indignation at the woman, and murmured against her, for the profusion of the ointment: went unto the chief priests; as soon as this affair was over, and Christ had defended the woman's conduct to his shame and silence: he immediately went out of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And when they heard it, they were glad,.... That such an opportunity offered, and from such a quarter, by one of his own disciples; so that it might be done more secretly and effectually, and with less blame to themselves: and promised to give him money; any sum he should ask; and what was agreed upon were thirty pieces, or shekels of silver; and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the first day of unleavened bread,.... Being come, which was the fourteenth of Nisan: when they killed the passover; that is, "the Jews", as the Syriac and Persic versions supply; for any Israelite, that not a priest, might slay it: their canon runs thus (x), "an Israelite kills (the passover), and a priest receives (the blood), and gives it...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he sendeth forth two of his disciples,.... Peter and John, as appears from Lu 22:8; and saith unto them, go ye into the city; the city of Jerusalem; for there only the passover might be eaten, Deuteronomy 26:2; and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water; a servant of the master of the house that was sent for water, to mix with...