hath she kept The large majority of authorities, including the best, read that she may keep, and the whole will run: Let her alone that she may preserve it for the day of My burial. The simplest interpretation of this is -Let her preserve what remains of it; not, however, to be sold for the poor, but to be used for My burial, which is near at hand." The text has probably been altered to bring it more into harmony with the Synoptists, with whom the present anointing appears as anointing for the burial by anticipation. The word for -burial" or -entombment" occurs only here and Mark 14:8.

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