¹² When she poured this perfume on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.^(A)

⁷ “Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “It was intended that she should save this perfume for the day of my burial.^(A)

⁸ She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial.^(A)

⁵⁶ Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes.^(A) But they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment.^(B)

Jesus Has Risen^(C)

24 On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared^(D) and went to the tomb.

Jesus Has Risen^(A)

16 When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices^(B) so that they might go to anoint Jesus’ body.

¹⁴ They buried him in the tomb that he had cut out for himself^(A) in the City of David. They laid him on a bier covered with spices and various blended perfumes,^(B) and they made a huge fire^(C) in his honor.

³⁹ He was accompanied by Nicodemus,^(A) the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.^{[a] 40} Taking Jesus’ body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen.^(B) This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs.^(C)