KJV King James Version
For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did [it] for my burial.
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Matthew 26:12
For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did [it] for my burial.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
By pouring this perfume on Me, she has prepared My body for burial.
WEB World English Bible
For in pouring this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.
ASV American Standard Version
For in that she poured this ointment upon my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
for she having put this ointment on my body—for my burial she did it.
Surrounding context — Matthew 26
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 the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
12 For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did [it] for my burial.
13 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, [there] shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.
14 Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,
15 And said [unto them], What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
βαλοῦσαG906 · ballōto throw: throwγὰρG1063 · garforαὕτηG3778 · ohutosthis/he/she/itτὸG3588 · hothe/this/whoμύρονG3464 · muronointmentτοῦτοG3778 · ohutosthis/he/she/itἐπὶG1909 · epiupon/to/againstτοῦG3588 · hothe/this/whoσώματόςG4983 · sōmabodyμουG3165 · memeπρὸςG4314 · prosto/withτὸG3588 · hothe/this/whoἐνταφιάσαιG1779 · entaphiazōto prepare burialμεG3165 · memeἐποίησεν.¶G4160 · poieōto do/make: do
Cross-references
John 12:7Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.Mark 14:8She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.Mark 16:1And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the [mother] of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.Luke 23:56And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.2 Chronicles 16:14And 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 odours and divers kinds [of spices] prepared by the apothecaries’ art: and they made a very great burning for him.John 19:39-40And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound [weight].
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