1312317 Mary annoints Jesus at Simon the Leper’s – Matthew 26:6-13, Mark 14:3-9, John 12:1-8 April A.D. 29 Bethany
Jesus therefore, six days before the Passover, came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who Jesus had raised from the dead. So they made him a supper there and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table to eat with him. Now therefore when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, Mary came to him and took a pound of an alabaster jar of very expensive and precious ointment of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured it over his head and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair as he sat at the table eating. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment. But when Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, one of his disciples, who would betray him and his disciples saw this, they were indignant among themselves saying, “Why has this ointment been wasted? Why this waste? Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor? For this ointment might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor.” And now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it. And they grumbled against her.
But Jesus perceiving said to them, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble the woman? Because she has done a good work for me. She has kept this for the day of my burial. For you always have the poor with you; and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you do not always have me. She has done what she could. For in pouring this ointment on my body, she has anointed my body beforehand to prepare me for burial. Most certainly I say to you, wherever this Gospel may be preached throughout the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of as a memorial of her.”
