In pouring this perfumed oil upon my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.
Then Joseph ordered the physicians in his service to embalm his father. When the physicians embalmed Israel,
They buried him in the tomb he had hewn for himself in the City of David, after laying him on a couch that was filled with spices and various kinds of aromatics compounded into an ointment; and they kindled a huge fire for him.
She has done what she could. She has anticipated anointing my body for burial.
When the sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary, the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go and anoint him.
they returned and prepared spices and perfumed oils. Then they rested on the sabbath according to the commandment.
So Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Let her keep this for the day of my burial.