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10. γνοὺς δὲ ὁ Ἰησοῦς. The murmurings had been whispered at first. St Mark says, ‘had indignation within themselves, and said, &c.’
ἔργον καλόν. A noble and beautiful work, denoting a delicate and refined sense of the fitness of things, which was lacking to the blunter perception of the rest.
The Lord passes a higher commendation on this than on any other act recorded in the N.T.; it implied a faith that enabled Mary to see, as no one else then did, the truth of the Kingdom. She saw that Jesus was still a King, though destined to die. The same thought—the certainty of the death of Jesus—that estranged Judas made her devotion more intense.