Matthew 26:12
For in that shee powred this oyntment on my bodie, shee did it to burie me.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 yee haue the poore alwayes with you, but me shall yee not haue alwaies.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 16:14And they buryed him in one of his sepulchres, which he had made for him selfe in the citie of Dauid, and layed him in the bed, which they had filled with sweete odours and diuers kindes of spices made by the arte of the apoticarie: and they burnt odours for him with an exceeding great fire.
Mark 16:1And when the Sabbath day was past, Marie Magdalene, and Marie the mother of Iames, and Salome, bought sweete oyntments, that they might come, and anoynt him.
John 12:7Then said Iesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying she kept it.
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 →