For in pouring this fragrant oil on My body, she did it for My burial.
But Jesus said, “Let her alone; she has kept this for the day of My burial.
She has done what she could. She has come beforehand to anoint My body for burial.
Then they returned and prepared spices and fragrant oils. And they rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment.
Now when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, that they might come and anoint Him.
They buried him in his own tomb, which he had made for himself in the City of David; and they laid him in the bed which was filled with spices and various ingredients prepared in a mixture of ointments. They made a very great burning for him.
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.