Mark 14:8

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She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.

Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God which hath been bestowed in the churches of Macedonia;

And evening having now come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,

And when the sabbath was past, Mary the Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.

And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a tomb that was hewn out of the rock; wherein no one had yet lain.

Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared.

Then said Jesus, Let her alone, that she may keep it until the day of my burial.

So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him.

For she, in pouring this ointment on my body, hath done it to prepare me for burial.