Matthew 26:12
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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.

Lexicon
By pouring
βαλοῦσα (balousa)
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 906: (a) I cast, throw, rush, (b) often, in the weaker sense: I place, put, drop. A primary verb; to throw.

this
τοῦτο (touto)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 3778: This; he, she, it.

perfume
μύρον (myron)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's Greek 3464: Anointing-oil, ointment. Probably of foreign origin; 'myrrh', i.e. perfumed oil.

on
ἐπὶ (epi)
Preposition
Strong's Greek 1909: On, to, against, on the basis of, at.

Me,
μου (mou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Singular
Strong's Greek 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

she has prepared
ἐποίησεν (epoiēsen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 4160: (a) I make, manufacture, construct, (b) I do, act, cause. Apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary; to make or do.

My [body]
με (me)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 1st Person Singular
Strong's Greek 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

for
πρὸς (pros)
Preposition
Strong's Greek 4314: To, towards, with. A strengthened form of pro; a preposition of direction; forward to, i.e. Toward.

burial.
ἐνταφιάσαι (entaphiasai)
Verb - Aorist Infinitive Active
Strong's Greek 1779: To embalm, prepare for burial. From a compound of en and taphos; to inswathe with cerements for interment.


Additional Translations
By pouring this perfume on Me, she has prepared My body for burial.

For this woman, in pouring this fragrant oil on My body, did it for My burial.

For in that she has poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.

For in that she poured this ointment upon my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.

For in pouring out this ointment on my body, she has done it for my burying.

For in that she poured this ointment upon my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.

For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.

In pouring this ointment over me, her object was to prepare me for burial.

For in pouring this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.

for she having put this ointment on my body -- for my burial she did it.
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