⁸ She has done what she could. She has come beforehand to anoint My body for burial. ⁹ Assuredly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is ^(A)preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her.”

^11 (A)For you have the poor with you always, but ^(B)Me you do not have always. ¹² For in pouring this fragrant oil on My body, she did it for My ^(C)burial.