Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.

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

And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.

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

And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds {of spices} prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him. {had made: Heb. had digged}

And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound {weight}.

Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, {this} also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.

Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.

And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, {that} the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.

Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.