She has done all she could — she has anticipated the perfuming of my body for burial.
If only one is ready to give, according to his means, it is acceptable; he is not asked to give what he has not got.
Then said Jesus, "Let her alone, let her keep what she has for the day of my burial.
He then took it down, wrapped it in linen, and put it in a tomb cut out of the rock, where no one had yet been buried.
By this time it was evening, and as it was the day of Preparation (that is, the day before the sabbath)
In pouring this perfume on my body she has acted in view of my burial.