Matthew 26:12 · KJV
“For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did {it} for my burial.”
— Matthew 26:12
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, {there} shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.
Matthew 26 — Context
When Jesus understood {it}, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.
11For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
12For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did {it} for my burial.
13Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, {there} shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.
14Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,
Cross References
John 12:7
Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
Mark 14:8
She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
2 Chronicles 16:14
And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds {of spices} prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him. {had made: Heb. had digged}
Mark 16:1
And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the {mother} of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.
Luke 23:56
And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
John 19:39-40
And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound {weight}.