In pouring this ointment on my body she has done it to prepare me for burial.
Jesus said, “Let her alone, let her keep it for the day of my burial.
She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for burying.
then they returned, and prepared spices and ointments. On the sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him.
They buried him in the tomb which he had hewn out for himself in the city of David. They laid him on a bier which had been filled with various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumer's art; and they made a very great fire in his honor.
And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel;