Matthew 26:12
Good News Translation
What she did was to pour this perfume on my body to get me ready for burial.

New Revised Standard Version
By pouring this ointment on my body she has prepared me for burial.

Contemporary English Version
She has poured perfume on my body to prepare it for burial.

New American Bible
In pouring this perfumed oil upon my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For she in pouring this ointment on my body hath done it for my burial.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For she in pouring this ointment on my body hath done it for my burial.

2 Chronicles 16:14 And they buried him in his own sepulchre, which he had made for himself in the city of David: and they laid him on his bed full of spices and odoriferous ointments, which were made by the art of the perfumers, and they burnt them over him with very great pomp.

Mark 14:8 She hath done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my body for the burial.

Mark 16:1 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalen and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought sweet spices, that coming, they might anoint Jesus.

Luke 23:56 And returning, they prepared spices and ointments: and on the sabbath day they rested, according to the commandment.

Luke 24:1 And on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came to the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared.

John 12:7 Jesus therefore said: Let her alone, that she may keep it against the day of my burial.

John 19:39,40 And Nicodemus also came (he who at the first came to Jesus by night), bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight. . . .

Context
Jesus Anointed at Bethany
11For the poor you have always with you: but me you have not always. 12For she in pouring this ointment on my body hath done it for my burial. 13Amen I say to you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, that also which she hath done shall be told for a memory of her.…
Cross References
Genesis 50:2
And he commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father.

Mark 14:8
She hath done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my body for the burial.

John 12:7
Jesus therefore said: Let her alone, that she may keep it against the day of my burial.

John 19:40
They took therefore the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths, with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.

Matthew 26:11
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