Thematic Bible: Of the dead


Thematic Bible



Just at that time it happened that she had been taken ill and had died, and they had washed her body and laid her out in a room upstairs.


In pouring this perfume on me she has done something to prepare me for burial.

When the Sabbath was over, Mary of Magdala, Mary, James's mother, and Salome bought spices, in order to go and anoint him.

Then they went home, and prepared spices and perfumes. On the Sabbath they rested in obedience to the commandment,

She has done all she could; she has perfumed my body in preparation for my burial.