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What does Matthew 26:13 mean?

"Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of as a memorial of her.”"

— Matthew 26:13 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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However, knowing this, Jesus said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? She has done a good work for me.

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For you always have the poor with you; but you don’t always have me.

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For in pouring this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.

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Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of as a memorial of her.”

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Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests,

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and said, “What are you willing to give me, that I should deliver him to you?” They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.

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From that time he sought opportunity to betray him.

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