Verse John 12:7. _LET HER ALONE: AGAINST THE DAY OF MY BURYING HATH SHE_ _KEPT THIS._] Several MSS. and versions read thus: - Αφες αυτην, ἱνα εις την ἡμεραντου ενταφιασμου μου τηρησῃ - _Let her al...
See this passage explained in the notes at Matthew 26:3. John 12:2 A SUPPER - At the house of Simon the leper, Matthew 26:6....
CHAPTER 12 1. The Feast at Bethany. (John 12:1 .) 2. The Entrance into Jerusalem. (John 12:9 .) 3. The Inquiring Greeks and His Answer. (John 12:20 .) 4. His Final Words. ...
JOHN 12. THE FINAL SCENES IN THE PUBLIC MANIFESTATION. John 12:1. The Anointing. The scene is the same as that recorded by Mt. and Mk. Luke 7:36 represents a different incident, or at least a widely...
LET HER ALONE: AGAINST THE DAY OF MY BURYING HATH SHE KEPT THIS. Their indignation was roused against the poor, shrinking Mary as if she had robbed them. No doubt Judas felt as if he had been robbed....
LOVE'S EXTRAVAGANCE (John 12:1-8)...
Now six days before the Passover Jesus went to Bethany, where Lazarus was whom he raised from the dead. So they made him a meal there, and Martha was serving while Lazarus was one of those who recline...
LET HER ALONE, &c.. T Tr.. WI. (not the Syriac) read, "Let her alone, in order that she may keep it, "&c. AGAINST. unto. Greek. _eis._ App-104....
_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...
The Judgment of Men Note the dramatic contrast between the different sections of this division; the devotion of Mary and the enmity of the hierarchy, Christ's triumph and the Pharisees" discomfiture,...
THE JUDGMENT OF MEN Note the dramatic contrast between the different sections of this division; the devotion of Mary and the enmity of the priests, Christ’s triumph and the Pharisees’ discomfiture, t...
THE DEVOTION OF MARY...
7. Insert ἽΝΑ after ΑΥ̓ΤΉΝ and read ΤΗΡΉΣΗΙ for τετήρηκεν (changes to escape a difficulty), with אBDKLQX against AIa. 7. ἌΦΕΣ ΑΥ̓ΤΉΝ, ἽΝΑ. _Let her alone_, THAT FOR THE DAY OF THE PREPARATION FOR MY B...
Ver 1. Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. 2. There they made him a supper: and Martha served: but Lazarus was...
_JESUS WAS ANOINTED AT BETHANY -- JOHN 12:1-11:_ Jesus often visited Bethany, the home of His friends Lazarus, Martha and Mary. This visit was special because Jesus had just raised Lazarus from the gr...
ΆΦΕΣ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΆΦΊΗΜΙ (G863) оставлять в покое. _Aor. imper._ здесь описывает началокатегорического приказания начать действие; которое само по себе является длительным: "оставьте ее в пок...
AGAINST THE DAY OF MY BURYING, &C.— The Jews first washed the corpse all over with water, after it was laid out, Acts 9:37 and then anointed it with _liquid spices,_ or odours, as appears from this ap...
AN ACT OF LOVEWITH OMINOUS OVERTONES _Text 12:1-11_ 1 Jesus therefore six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus raised from the dead. 2 So they made him a supper...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 12:1-11 Below is an Analysis of the passage which we are about to study:— What is recorded in John 12 occurred during the last week before our Lord’s death. In...
Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. For the exposition of this portion, see the notes at Mark 14:3, and Rem...
7 While facing the terrible ordeal of death our Lord found no fellowship with His disciples in the sorrows before Him. Like Peter, they could not entertain such a thought. But it seems that Mary alone...
12:7 burial; (c-17) i.e. it was now the time. see ch. 19.40. The word is used in Genesis 50:2 (LXX) for embalmment in Hebrew....
THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY. CLOSE OF THE PUBLIC MINISTRY 1-11. Supper at Bethany (see on Matthew 26:6 and Mark 14:3, which record the same incident). The event in Luke 7:36. is different. The supper was at t...
LET HER ALONE: AGAINST THE DAY OF MY BURYING HATH SHE KEPT THIS] i.e. She has done quite right not to sell the ointment. She has kept it for today, making today as it were My burial day, by performing...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 12 MARY POURS EXPENSIVE *PERFUME OVER JESUS’ FEET 12:1-11 V1 Six (6) days before the *Passover, Jesus returned to Betha...
AGAINST THE DAY OF MY BURYING HATH SHE KEPT THIS. — The majority of the better MSS. read, “that she keep this against the day of My burying.” Comp. Matthew 26:12 and Mark 14:8. The thought here differ...
I. _ THE ANOINTING OF JESUS._ "Jesus therefore six days before the Passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus raised from the dead. So they made Him a supper there: and Martha served; but...
LOVE'S FRAGRANT GIFT John 12:1-11 Martha's service reminds us of Luke 10:41. The earlier Gospels (Matthew 26:1-75; Mark 14:1-72) do not mention Mary's name, probably because the whole family might ha...
The shadows of the Passion were now falling across the path of the Christ. In what happened at the supper we have a vivid contrast. Mary and Judas arrest our attention. She, discovering the sorrows of...
(2) Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this. (2) This extraordinary anointing, which was a sign, is allowed by God so that he may witness that he will not be...
THE SUPPER AT BETHANY Matthew 26:6-13; Mark 14:3-9; John 12:2-8. _“Then they made for Him a supper there, and Martha served; and Lazarus was one of those sitting along with Him.”_ Matthew and Mark say...
“ _Jesus therefore said to him: Let her alone; she has kept it for the day of my burial._ 8. _For the poor you have always with you; but me you have not always._ ” We translate according to the readin...
SECOND SECTION: 12:1-36. THE LAST DAYS OF THE MINISTRY OF JESUS. This section includes three parts: 1. The supper of Jesus at Bethany: John 12:1 to John 11:2. His entry into Jerusalem: John 12:12 to...
I. THE SUPPER AT BETHANY: JOHN 12:1-11. In the presence of the great struggle of whose approach every one has a presentiment, the devotion of the friends of Jesus becomes loftier; by way of counter-st...
Then Jesus, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. (2) There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one...
The point at which we have arrived gives me an opportunity of saying a little on the beginning of this chapter, and the end of the last; for it is well known that many men, and, I am sorry to add, not...
_A GOOD WORK_ ‘Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of My burying hath she kept this.’ John 12:7 Note the time: it enhanced the gift. It was the insight of love. The Saviour was but a fe...
7._Let her alone. _When Christ bids them _let _Mary _alone_, he shows that they act improperly and unjustly who disturb their neighbors without a good reason, and raise a disturbance about nothing. Ch...
His place (chapter 12) now is with the remnant, where His heart found rest the house of Bethany. We have, in this family, a sample of the true remnant of Israel, three different cases with regard to t...
THEN SAID JESUS, LET HER ALONE,.... Do not disturb her in what she does, or hinder her, or blame her for it: AGAINST THE DAY OF MY BURIAL HATH SHE KEPT THIS; this ointment, which she now poured on Ch...
Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this. Ver. 7. _Let her alone_] Christ crossed the traitor in his covetous desire of fingering such a sum. Hence his discont...
_Then took Mary a pound of ointment_, &c. See notes on Matthew 26:6; Mark 14:1. She did what is here related in token of the warm sense she had of the many favours Christ had conferred on her and her...
Christ's feet anointed by Mary. Matthew 26:6-13; MARK 14:3-9....
The objection of Judas:...
THEN SAID JESUS, LET HER ALONE; AGAINST THE DAY OF MY BURYING HATH SHE KEPT THIS....
A SUPPER FOR HIM AT BETHANY (vs.1-8) Six days before the Passover He returned to the area of Jerusalem, coming by way of Jericho, as Luke shows us (Luke 19:1). These days He spent in ministering mai...
1-11 Christ had formerly blamed Martha for being troubled with much serving. But she did not leave off serving, as some, who when found fault with for going too far in one way, peevishly run too far...
SEE POOLE ON "JONAH 12:3...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians For this end did the Lord suffer the ointment to be poured upon His head,[118] Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians For this end did the Lord suffer the ointmen...
John 12:7 But G3767 Jesus G2424 said G2036 (G5627) Let G863 her G846 alone G863 (G5628) kept...
‘Jesus therefore said, “Leave her alone, that she may keep it for the day of my burial. You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me with you'. This is a brief summary of what Jesu...
JESUS IS ANOINTED (JOHN 12:1). This incident is significant in that it is unintentionally prophetic. By her action in anointing Jesus, Mary is intending to proclaim her gratitude and love, but what s...
John 12:7. JESUS THEREFORE SAID, LET HER ALONE, THAT FOR THE DAY OF THE PREPARATION FOR MY BURIAL SHE MAY KEEP IT. The meaning of the word which in the Authorised Version is rendered ‘burial' is made...
Jesus has been doomed to death (John 11:53; John 11:57), and the hour is at hand when He shall be seized, and the sentence executed. But the malice of man cannot interfere with the purposes of God. In...
SUFFER HER TO KEEP IT AGAINST THE DAY OF MY BURYING (Αφες αυτην, ινα εις την ημεραν του ενταφιασμου μου τηρηση αυτο). This reading (ινα τηρηση, purpose clause with ινα and first aorist active subjun...
John 12:1. _Then Jesus six days before the Passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead._ The days Christ was to spend upon the earth were getting to...
John 12:1. _Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. There they made him a supper;_ It was in the house of Simon t...
John 12:1. _Then Jesus, six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. There they made him a supper, and Martha served: but Lazarus...
CONTENTS: The supper at Bethany. The triumphal entry. Jesus' answer to Greeks. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Lazarus, Mary, Martha, disciples, Judas, Philip, Andrew, Isaiah, Pharisees. CONCLUSION: The most plen...
John 12:1. _Six days before the passover._ The Hebrew sabbath was kept from sunset to sunset. The worship of the day being closed, the jews indulged in a good supper after the light food of the day. T...
THEY PREPARED A DINNER FOR HIM. For notes on this dinner and the anointing, see Matthew 26:6-16. FOR THE DAY OF MY BURIAL. Before the week ended, he would be in the grave. It was the custom to anoint...
_Then Jesus six days before the Passover._ --The following calendar of the Passover week is taken from Lightfoot (2.586): NISAN IX;_ The Sabbath_. Six days before the Passover, Jesus sups with Lazar...
A WOMAN ANOINTS JESUS WITH PERFUME MATTHEW 26:6-13; MARK 14:3-9; JOHN 12:1-8; MATTHEW 26:6 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Sim
1-50 CHAPTER 12 Ver. 1. _Then Jesus six days before the Passover_, &c. He came from Ephraim, as the Passover was drawing on when He was to die. And He came to Bethany to prepare Himself for it; nay m...
_Then said Jesus, Suffer her to keep this for the day of my burial._ In the Greek it is "for the day of my burial hath she kept this," and also in the Syriac (_see notes on Matthew 26:12_, &c.) Hear S...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 12:1. See Homiletic Note, p. 341. John 12:2. The Synoptists inform us that it was in the house of Simon the leper (Matthew 26:6;...
EXPOSITION The twelfth chapter neither belongs intrinsically to that which precedes nor to that which follows. It is a paragraph of high significance, as bearing on the construction of the Gospel. It...
Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he had raised from the dead. They made him a supper; and Martha served [typical of Martha]: but Laz...
John 19:38; Luke 23:50; Mark 14:6; Mark 15:42; Matthew 26:10;...
Let her alone : against the day of my burying hath she kept this (afev aujthn eijv thn hJmeran tou ejntafiasmou). This passage presents great difficulty. According to the reading just given, the meani...
MARY ANOINTING HER LORD John 12:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We are now coming to the close of the life of our Master presenting the third of three Bible scenes centering around Martha, Mary, and Lazarus....
Against the day of my burial — Which now draws nigh....