For in pouring this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.
Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.
They buried him in his own tomb, which he had dug out for himself in David’s city, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers’ art; and they made a very great fire for him.
She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying.
When the Sabbath was past, Miriam Magdalene, and Miriam the mother of Jacob, and Shalom bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.
They returned and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
But Yeshua said, “Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial.