Lesson 5283

 (Lesson 5283)(07-25-26) Mark 14:1-9 

   “After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people. And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made? For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her. And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me. For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always. She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying. 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.” 

 

     Today’s quote relates that, as the leaders of the Jews secretly plotted to execute Jesus without setting off a public riot, a woman in Bethany honored Jesus by pouring costly perfumed ointment over his head. When Judas criticized the gesture as wasteful, Jesus defended her, explaining that she was anointing His body in advance for His upcoming burial and commanded that what she had done for Him be told wherever, and whenever the gospel is preached. When is the last time you heard your preacher mention that woman and the act that she performed for our Savior?