Matthew 26:12

Bible in Basic English 1965

For in putting this perfume on my body, she did it to make me ready for my last resting-place.

Cross References

Genesis 50:2

And Joseph gave orders to his servants who had the necessary knowledge, to make his father's body ready, folding it in linen with spices, and they did so.

2 Chronicles 16:14

And they put him into the resting-place which he had made for himself in the town of David, in a bed full of sweet perfumes of all sorts of spices, made by the perfumer's art, and they made a great burning for him.

Mark 14:8

She has done what she was able: she has put oil on my body to make it ready for its last resting-place.

Mark 16:1

And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of James, and Salome, got spices, so that they might come and put them on him.

John 12:7

Then Jesus said, Let her be. Let her keep what she has for the day of my death.