Matthew 26:12

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Matthew 26:10–14 · Berean Standard Bible

10 Aware of this, Jesus asked, “Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful deed to Me.

11 The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have Me.

12 By pouring this perfume on Me, she has prepared My body for burial.

13 Truly I tell you, wherever this gospel is preached in all the world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”

14 Then one of the Twelve, the one called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

2 Chronicles 16:14

And he was buried in the tomb that he had cut out for himself in the City of David. They laid him on a bier that was full of spices and various blended perfumes; then they made a great fire in his honor.

Mark 14:8

She has done what she could to anoint My body in advance of My burial.

Mark 16:1

When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so they could go and anoint the body of Jesus.

Luke 23:56

Then they returned to prepare spices and perfumes. And they rested on the Sabbath, according to the commandment.

Luke 24:1

On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women came to the tomb, bringing the spices they had prepared.

John 12:7

“Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “She has kept this perfume in preparation for the day of My burial.

John 19:39

Nicodemus, who had previously come to Jesus at night, also brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.

John 19:40

So they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in linen cloths with the spices, according to the Jewish burial custom.