Matthew 26:11-13

Jesus Anointed at Bethany

¹¹ For _z you always have the poor with you, but _a you will not always have me. ¹² In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it _b to prepare me for burial. ¹³ Truly, I say to you, wherever _c this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told _d in memory of her."

1. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 15:11
   For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, 'You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.
   
2. Cross References
   Matthew 9:15
   And Jesus said to them, "Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.
   John 7:33
   Jesus then said, "I will be with you a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me.
   
3. Cross References
   John 19:40
   So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.
   
4. Cross References
   Matthew 24:14
   And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
   
5. Cross References
   Acts 10:4
   And he stared at him in terror and said, "What is it, Lord?" And he said to him, "Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God.