A moment in scripture
Matthew 26:12
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For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
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The surrounding passage
- Matthew 26:10
When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.
- Matthew 26:11
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
- Matthew 26:13
Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.
- Matthew 26:14
Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.