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Matthew 26:12

The cross and atonement

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.

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,

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
By pouring this perfume on Me, she has prepared My body for burial.
KJV
For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
WEB
For in pouring this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.
ASV
For in that she poured this ointment upon my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.
DARBY
For in pouring out this ointment on my body, she has done it for my burying.
BLB
For she, in pouring this fragrant oil on My body, did [it] for My burial.
ÅB
For da hun helte denne salven ut over kroppen min, gjorde hun meg i stand til begravelsen min.
OTB
Ved å helle denne parfymen over kroppen min, har hun gjort det som en forberedelse til min begravelse.
B1930
For da hun helte denne salve ut over mitt legeme, gjorde hun mig i stand til min jordeferd.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • John 12:7

    Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.

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  • Mark 14:8

    She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.

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  • Luke 23:56–24:1

    And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.

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  • Mark 16:1

    And 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.

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  • 2 Chronicles 16:14

    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 odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries’ art: and they made a very great burning for him.

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  • John 19:39–40

    And 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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