Mark 14:8

She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.

She hath done what she could - a noble testimony, embodying a principle of immense importance.

She is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying or as in John () "Against the day of She is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying - or, as in John (), "Against the day of my burying hath she kept this." Not that she, dear heart, thought of His burial, much less reserved any of her nard to anoint her dead Lord. But as the time was so near at hand when that office would have to be performed, and she was not to have that privilege even after the spices were brought for the purpose (), He lovingly regards it as done now.