When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.

Ver. 10. Why trouble ye the woman?] Christ will patronize his welldoers, and stick to them, though all forsake them, 2 Timothy 4:16,17. He many times pleads for them in the consciences of their greatest enemies, who spend more thoughts about such than the world is aware of: and are "afraid of the name of God, whereby they are called," Deuteronomy 28:9,10 .

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