Matthew 26:12
For she in pouring this ointment upon my body, hath done it for my burial.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 have always with you: but me you have not always.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 16:14And they buried him in his own sepulchre, which he had made for himself in the city of David: and they laid him on his bed full of spices and odoriferous ointments, which were made by the art of the perfumers, and they burnt them over him with very great pomp.
Mark 16:1And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalen, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought sweet spices, that coming, they might anoint Jesus.
John 12:7Jesus therefore said: Let her alone, 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 →