Matthew 26:13
Truly I say to you, Wherever this good news goes out in all the world, what this woman has done will be talked of in memory of her.
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12For in putting this perfume on my body, she did it to make me ready for my last resting-place.
14Then one of the twelve, who was named Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said,
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:30For this reason the Lord God of Israel has said, Truly I did say that your family and your father's people would have their place before me for ever: but now the Lord says, Let it not be so; I will give honour to those by whom I am honoured, and those who have no respect for me will be of small value in my eyes.
Psalms 112:6He will not ever be moved; the memory of the upright will be living for ever.
Matthew 24:14And this good news of the kingdom will be given through all the world for a witness to all nations; and then the end will come.
Mark 13:10And the good news has first to be given to all the nations.
Mark 16:15And he said to them, Go into all the world, and give the good news to everyone.
Romans 10:18But I say, Did not the word come to their ears? Yes, certainly: Their sound has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.
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 →