When he found one priceless pearl, he went and sold everything he had, and bought it.

By pouring this fragrant oil on My body, she has prepared Me for burial.

So they conferred together and bought the potter’s field with it as a burial place for foreigners.

She has done what she could; she has anointed My body in advance for burial.

“There’s a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish—but what are they for so many?”

So they collected them and filled 12 baskets with the pieces from the five barley loaves that were left over by those who had eaten.

Jesus answered, “Leave her alone; she has kept it for the day of My burial.

Then they took Jesus’ body and wrapped it in linen cloths with the aromatic spices, according to the burial custom of the Jews.

Then I heard something like a voice among the four living creatures say, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius—but do not harm the olive 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,
the twelfth amethyst.

The 12 gates are 12 pearls; each individual gate was made of a single pearl. The broad street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.