when he finds a single pearl of high price, he is off to sell all he possesses and buy it.

In pouring this perfume on my body she has acted in view of my burial.

She has done all she could ??she has anticipated the perfuming of my body for burial.

During the voyage he fell asleep. But when a gale of wind came down on the lake and they were being swamped and in peril,

"There is a servant here, with five barley-cakes and a couple of fish; but what is that among so many?"

Then said Jesus, "Let her alone, let her keep what she has for the day of my burial.

they took and wrapped up the body of Jesus in the spices and in bandages, according to the Jewish custom of burial.

Our baptism in his death made us share his burial, so that, as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live and move in the new sphere of Life.

and I heard like a voice in the midst of the four living Creatures saying, "A shilling for a quart of wheat, a shilling for three quarts of barley; but harm not oil and wine!"

'Woe and alas, for the great city, robed in linen, in purple and scarlet, her ornaments of gold, of jewels and pearl!

the fifth of onyx, the sixth of sardius, the seventh of chrysolite, the eighth of beryl, the ninth of topaz, the tenth of chrysoprase, the eleventh of jacinth, the twelfth of amethyst.

The twelve gates are twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl; and the streets of the City are pure gold, clear as crystal.