Matthew 26:12
For in pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
In Context
11For you have the poor always with you, but me you have not always.
Cross References
Mark 16:1And when the sabbath had passed, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.
John 12:7Then Jesus said: Let her alone; she has kept this for the day of my burial.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 26:7-14
Christ Anointed at Bethany. 6 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, 7 There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat. 8 But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste? 9 For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor. 10 When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me. 11 For ye have… Read the whole commentary →