12For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
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Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.
And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-13)In this passage of story, we have, I. The singular kindness of a good woman to our Lord Jesus in anointing his head, Matt. 26:6 , 7 . It was in Bethany , a village hard by Jerusalem, and in the house of Simon the leper . Probably, he was one who had been miraculously cleansed from his leprosy by our Lord Jesus, and he would express his gratitude to Christ by entertaining him; nor did Christ disdai…
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