Matthew 26:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

For in that she has poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.

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  • 2 Chr 16:14 : 14 And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art; and they made a very great burning for him.
  • Mark 14:8 : 8 She has done what she could; she has come beforehand to anoint my body for the burial.
  • Mark 16:1 : 1 And when the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought sweet spices so they might go and anoint him.
  • Luke 23:56-24:1 : 56 Then they returned and prepared spices and ointments, and they rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment. 1 On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they went to the tomb, bringing the spices they had prepared, and certain others with them.
  • John 12:7 : 7 Then Jesus said, Leave her alone; she has kept this for the day of my burial.
  • John 19:39-40 : 39 And Nicodemus also came, who at first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds in weight. 40 Then they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in linen clothes with the spices, as is the custom of the Jews to bury.

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  • Mark 14:2-9
    8 verses
    85%

    2 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.

    3 And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at dinner, there came a woman with an alabaster box of very precious ointment of spikenard; and she broke the box and poured it on his head.

    4 And there were some who had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?

    5 For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

    6 And Jesus said, Leave her alone; why do you trouble her? She has done a good work on me.

    7 For you have the poor with you always, and whenever you will you may do them good; but me you do not have always.

    8 She has done what she could; she has come beforehand to anoint my body for the burial.

    9 Truly I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached throughout the whole world, this also that she has done shall be spoken of in memory of her.

  • 13 Truly I say to you, Wherever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, what this woman has done, be told for a memorial of her.

  • John 12:3-8
    6 verses
    84%

    3 Then Mary took a pound of very costly spikenard ointment, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.

    4 Then one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, who would betray him, said,

    5 Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred pence and given to the poor?

    6 This he said, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the money bag, and used to take what was put in it.

    7 Then Jesus said, Leave her alone; she has kept this for the day of my burial.

    8 For the poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me.

  • Matt 26:6-11
    6 verses
    82%

    6 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,

    7 There came to him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at the table.

    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 to them, Why trouble you the woman? for she has worked a good work on me.

    11 For you always have the poor with you; but me you do not always have.

  • Luke 7:44-47
    4 verses
    76%

    44 And he turned to the woman, and said to Simon, Do you see this woman? I entered into your house, you gave me no water for my feet: but she has washed my feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head.

    45 You gave me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in has not ceased to kiss my feet.

    46 My head with oil you did not anoint: but this woman has anointed my feet with ointment.

    47 Therefore I say to you, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.

  • 2 (It was that Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

  • Luke 7:37-38
    2 verses
    70%

    37 And, behold, a woman in the city, who was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat to eat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,

    38 And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

  • 40 Then they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in linen clothes with the spices, as is the custom of the Jews to bury.

  • 46 And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a tomb which was cut out of a rock, and rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.

  • 37 For I say to you, that this which is written must still be accomplished in me, And he was numbered with the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end.

  • 12 And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus.

  • 11 But Mary stood outside the tomb weeping, and as she wept, she stooped down and looked into the tomb,

  • 13 And they said to her, Woman, why are you weeping? She said to them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.

  • 4 For all these have out of their abundance cast into the offerings of God; but she, out of her poverty, has cast in all the living that she had.

  • 16 These things his disciples did not understand at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.

  • 10 And she went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept.

  • 31 The Jews then who were with her in the house, and comforting her, when they saw Mary get up hastily and go out, followed her, saying, She is going to the grave to weep there.

  • 28 For this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

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    43 So he called his disciples to him and said to them, 'Truly I say to you, that this poor widow has put in more than all those who have given to the treasury;

    44 for they all put in out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all that she had, her whole livelihood.'

  • 42 There they laid Jesus because of the Jews' preparation day; for the tomb was nearby.

  • 1 And when the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought sweet spices so they might go and anoint him.

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    59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

    60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out of the rock; and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulcher, and departed.

  • Matt 26:1-2
    2 verses
    67%

    1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples,

    2 You know that after two days is the feast of the Passover, and the Son of Man is betrayed to be crucified.

  • 33 This he said, signifying what death he would die.

  • 18 And took your embroidered garments, and covered them; and you have set my oil and my incense before them.

  • 19 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and broke it, and gave to them, saying, This is my body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of me.