Matthew 26:12
New International Version
When she poured this perfume on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.

New Living Translation
She has poured this perfume on me to prepare my body for burial.

English Standard Version
In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial.

Berean Standard Bible
By pouring this perfume on Me, she has prepared My body for burial.

Berean Literal Bible
For this woman, in pouring this fragrant oil on My body, did it for My burial.

King James Bible
For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.

New King James Version
For in pouring this fragrant oil on My body, she did it for My burial.

New American Standard Bible
For when she poured this perfume on My body, she did it to prepare Me for burial.

NASB 1995
“For when she poured this perfume on My body, she did it to prepare Me for burial.

NASB 1977
“For when she poured this perfume upon My body, she did it to prepare Me for burial.

Legacy Standard Bible
For when she poured this perfume on My body, she did it to prepare Me for burial.

Amplified Bible
When she poured this perfume on My body, she did it to prepare Me for burial.

Christian Standard Bible
By pouring this perfume on my body, she has prepared me for burial.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
By pouring this fragrant oil on My body, she has prepared Me for burial.

American Standard Version
For in that she poured this ointment upon my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But she who has poured this ointment on my body has done it as for my burial.

Contemporary English Version
She has poured perfume on my body to prepare it for burial.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For she in pouring this ointment upon my body, hath done it for my burial.

English Revised Version
For in that she poured this ointment upon my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
She poured this perfume on my body before it is placed in a tomb.

Good News Translation
What she did was to pour this perfume on my body to get me ready for burial.

International Standard Version
When she poured this perfume on my body, she was preparing me for burial.

Literal Standard Version
for she having put this ointment on My body—for My burial she did [it].

Majority Standard Bible
By pouring this perfume on Me, she has prepared My body for burial.

New American Bible
In pouring this perfumed oil upon my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.

NET Bible
When she poured this oil on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.

New Revised Standard Version
By pouring this ointment on my body she has prepared me for burial.

New Heart English Bible
For in pouring this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.

Webster's Bible Translation
For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.

Weymouth New Testament
In pouring this ointment over me, her object was to prepare me for burial.

World English Bible
For in pouring this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.

Young's Literal Translation
for she having put this ointment on my body -- for my burial she did it.

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Context
Jesus Anointed at Bethany
11The 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. 13Truly I tell you, wherever this gospel is preached in all the world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”…

Cross References
Genesis 50:2
And Joseph directed the physicians in his service to embalm his father Israel. So they embalmed him,

Mark 14:8
She has done what she could to anoint My body in advance of My burial.

John 12:7
"Leave her alone," Jesus replied. "She has kept this perfume in preparation for the day of My burial.

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.


Treasury of Scripture

For in that she has poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.

2 Chronicles 16:14
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.

Mark 14:8
She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.

Mark 16:1
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.

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Matthew 26
1. Jesus foretells his own death.
3. The rulers conspire against him.
6. The woman anoints his feet.
14. Judas bargains to betray him.
17. Jesus eats the Passover;
26. institutes his holy supper;
30. foretells the desertion of his disciples, and Peter's denial;
36. prays in the garden;
47. and being betrayed by a kiss,
57. is carried to Caiaphas,
69. and denied by Peter.














(12) She did it for my burial.--The words must have fallen with a strange sadness upon the ears of the disciples and the other guests. They were expecting that "the kingdom of God should immediately appear" (Luke 19:11), and were looking forward to the dawn of the next day as the hour of its victory and triumph. The enthusiasm of the moment made them deaf to the real import of what they heard, and their Master, alone of all that company, knew that the fragrance of that perfume would not have died away when His body should be laid in the sepulchre.

Verse 12. - On my body, she did it for my burial (πρὸς τὸ ἐνταφιάσαι με, to prepare me for burial). This doubtless was in some sort her intention (see on ver 10). She desired to offer what she could (Mark 14:8) of the offices and attentions due to the corpse of a beloved and revered Friend. Christ interpreted her act, and gave it a solemn significance. By this effusion of the precious unguent site anticipated the embalming of the Lord's body; she showed her reverence for that body which was to be given for the life of the world not many days hence. The full meaning of the mystery of which she was the instrument Mary did not comprehend, but what she had consciously done received a wonderful commendation from the Lord, which has no parallel in the Gospel history.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
By pouring
βαλοῦσα (balousa)
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 906: (a) I cast, throw, rush, (b) often, in the weaker sense: I place, put, drop. A primary verb; to throw.

this
τοῦτο (touto)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it.

perfume
μύρον (myron)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3464: Anointing-oil, ointment. Probably of foreign origin; 'myrrh', i.e. perfumed oil.

on
ἐπὶ (epi)
Preposition
Strong's 1909: On, to, against, on the basis of, at.

Me,
μου (mou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

she has prepared
ἐποίησεν (epoiēsen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 4160: (a) I make, manufacture, construct, (b) I do, act, cause. Apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary; to make or do.

My [body]
με (me)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

for
πρὸς (pros)
Preposition
Strong's 4314: To, towards, with. A strengthened form of pro; a preposition of direction; forward to, i.e. Toward.

burial.
ἐνταφιάσαι (entaphiasai)
Verb - Aorist Infinitive Active
Strong's 1779: To embalm, prepare for burial. From a compound of en and taphos; to inswathe with cerements for interment.


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