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Matthew 26:12
For in pouring this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.
Matthew 26:12 · World English Bible
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Matthew 26:12 in other translations
For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
By pouring this perfume on Me, she has prepared My body for burial.
For in pouring this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.
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In context
9 For this ointment might have been sold for much and given to the poor.”
10 However, knowing this, Jesus said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? She has done a good work for me.
11 For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.
12 For in pouring this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.
13 Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of as a memorial of her.”
14 Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests
15 and said, “What are you willing to give me if I deliver him to you?” So they weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.
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