Matthew 26:12
For in pouring out this ointment on my body, she has done it for my burying.
Darby Translation
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 ye have the poor always with you, but me ye have not always.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 16:14And they buried him in his own sepulchre, which he had excavated for himself in the city of David, and laid him in a bed filled with spices, a mixture of divers kinds prepared by the perfumer's art; and they made a very great burning for him.
Mark 16:1And the sabbath being [now] past, Mary of Magdala, and Mary the [mother] of James, and Salome, bought aromatic spices that they might come and embalm him.
John 12:7Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to have kept this for the day of my preparation for 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 →