Verse 7

Jesus, therefore, said, `Suffer her; for the day of my embalming she hath kept it,

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 109:31 : 31 For He standeth at the right hand of the needy, To save from those judging his soul.
  • Zech 3:2 : 2 And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary: `Jehovah doth push against thee, O Adversary, Yea, push against thee doth Jehovah, Who is fixing on Jerusalem, Is not this a brand delivered from fire?'
  • Matt 26:10 : 10 And Jesus having known, said to them, `Why do ye give trouble to the woman? for a good work she wrought for me;
  • Matt 26:12 : 12 for she having put this ointment on my body -- for my burial she did `it'.
  • Matt 27:57-60 : 57 And evening having come, there came a rich man, from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also himself was discipled to Jesus, 58 he having gone near to Pilate, asked for himself the body of Jesus; then Pilate commanded the body to be given back. 59 And having taken the body, Joseph wrapped it in clean linen, 60 and laid it in his new tomb, that he hewed in the rock, and having rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, he went away;
  • Mark 14:6 : 6 And Jesus said, `Let her alone; why are ye giving her trouble? a good work she wrought on me;
  • Mark 15:42-47 : 42 And now evening having come, seeing it was the preparation, that is, the fore-sabbath, 43 Joseph of Arimathea, an honourable counsellor, who also himself was waiting for the reign of God, came, boldly entered in unto Pilate, and asked the body of Jesus. 44 And Pilate wondered if he were already dead, and having called near the centurion, did question him if he were long dead, 45 and having known `it' from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph. 46 And he, having brought fine linen, and having taken him down, wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre that had been hewn out of a rock, and he rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre, 47 and Mary the Magdalene, and Mary of Joses, were beholding where he is laid.
  • Luke 23:50 : 50 And lo, a man, by name Joseph, being a counsellor, a man good and righteous,
  • John 19:38-42 : 38 And after these things did Joseph of Arimathea -- being a disciple of Jesus, but concealed, through the fear of the Jews -- ask of Pilate, that he may take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave leave; he came, therefore, and took away the body of Jesus, 39 and Nicodemus also came -- who came unto Jesus by night at the first -- bearing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, as it were, a hundred pounds. 40 They took, therefore, the body of Jesus, and bound it with linen clothes with the spices, according as it was the custom of the Jews to prepare for burial; 41 and there was in the place where he was crucified a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one was yet laid; 42 there, therefore, because of the preparation of the Jews, because the tomb was nigh, they laid Jesus.