106: Jesus Anointed With Ointment
Matthew 26:6-13; Mark 14:3-9; John 12:2-8
Jesus Anointed With Ointment
Jesus visited the house of Simon the leper, in Bethany.
As he sat to eat, a woman came to Jesus with an alabaster box of very costly ointment of spikenard, which she poured on his hair. Some were indignant at this, saying:
“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.”
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.’”
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