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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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)

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Footnotes

  1. John 19:39 Or about 34 kilograms

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