But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me.
10. Why do you trouble the woman? It is wonderful that Christ, whose whole life was a rule and pattern of temperance and frugality, now approves of immoderate expense, which appears to have been closely allied to luxury and superfluous indulgence.
When Jesus understood it,.... The indignation of his disciples at this action of the woman's; which he might know, as man, partly by their looks, and partly by their words; though without these, as God, he knew the secret indignation, and private resentment of their minds: he said unto them, why trouble ye the woman?
Verse 10. Trouble ye the woman. That is disturb her mind by insinuations, as if she had done wrong. A good work upon me. She has done it with a mind grateful, and full of love to me. The work was good, also, as it was preparative to his death, .