Matthew 26:12
For in pouring this ointment on my body, she has prepared for my burial.
Catholic Public Domain Version
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 the poor you will always have with you. But you will not always have me.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 16:14And they buried him in his own sepulcher, which he had made for himself in the City of David. And they placed him upon his bed, full of the aromatics and ointments of courtesans, which were composed with the skill of the perfumers. And they burned these over him with very great ostentation.
Mark 16:1And when the Sabbath had passed, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought aromatic spices, so that when they arrived they could anoint Jesus.
John 12:7But Jesus said: “Permit her, so that she may keep it against 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 →