who, when he had found one pearl of great value, went and sold all that he had and bought it.

For in pouring this perfume on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.

She has done what she could. She has come beforehand to anoint my body for burial.

"There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two small fish, but what are they among so many?"

So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, left over by those who had eaten.

Jesus said, "Let her alone, she has kept this for the day of my burial.

So they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in strips of linen with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

He delivered us from so deadly a peril, and he will deliver us; on him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.

And I heard what sounded like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, "A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not damage the oil and the wine!"

the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.

And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, each of the gates made of a single pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.