Mark 14:6

6 And Iesus sayde: let hir be in reest why trouble ye hir? She hath done a good worke on me.

Mark 14:6 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 14:6

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).

Mark 14:6 In-Context

4 And ther were some that were not content in them selves and sayde: what neded this waste of oyntment?

5 For it myght have bene soolde for more then thre hundred pens and bene geve vnto the poore. And they grudged agaynste hir.

6 And Iesus sayde: let hir be in reest why trouble ye hir? She hath done a good worke on me.

7 For ye shall have poore with you all wayes: and when soever ye will ye maye do them good: but me ye shall not have alwayes.

8 She hath done that she coulde: she came a fore honde to anoynt my boddy to his buryinge warde.