Matthew 26:1-13
A Woman
Pours Perfume On Jesus' Feet
Matthew
26:1 When
Jesus had finished all these words, He said to His
disciples,
2 "You know that
after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son
of Man is to be handed over for crucifixion."
3 Then the chief
priests and the elders of the people were gathered
together in the court of the high priest, named
Caiaphas;
4 and they plotted
together to seize Jesus by stealth and kill Him.
5 But they were
saying, "Not during the festival, otherwise a riot
might occur among the people."
6 Now when Jesus
was in Bethany, at the home of Simon the leper,
7 a woman came to
Him with an alabaster vial of very costly perfume,
and she poured it on His head as He reclined at the
table.
8 But the disciples
were indignant when they saw this, and said, "Why
this waste?
9 "For this perfume
might have been sold for a high price and the money
given to the poor."
10 But Jesus, aware
of this, said to them, "Why do you bother the
woman? For she has done a good deed to Me.
11 "For you always
have the poor with you; but you do not always have
Me.
12 "For when she
poured this perfume on My body, she did it to
prepare Me for burial.
13 "Truly I say to
you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole
world, what this woman has done will also be spoken
of in memory of her."
This
is the Word of the Lord ... It is meant to change
the way that we think, and the way that we live.
Commentary
by Bob Pardue
The Woman And
The Perfume
A note here is that, while
Jesus was being annointed with perfume, the
pharisees were plotting to kill him. Jesus knew of
their plans all along but, as always, used the
pouring of the perfume to reveal and to
teach.
It is believed that the woman
mentioned here was Mary, Lazarus's sister. She knew
the goodness and power of Christ as He brought her
brother back to life after four days.
None of the disciples were
happy with this incident and became indignant at
the blatent waste of very expensive
perfume.
But, as told in the Gospel of
John, no disciple was more so that Judas Iscariot,
the betrayer. After all, he sold Jesus out for a
small amount of silver so greed was in his
nature.
Jesus answered by bringing
back Deuteronomy 15:11 which states that "There
will always be poor people in the land.", not to be
sarcastic but just to state the fact that He would
not be with them much longer as the perfume was his
burial scent.
The woman's "sacrifice" of
perfume pleased Jesus as it was given in the right
spirit.
How about us? Are we willing
to give a sacrifice of our resources and time to
glorify Christ?
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- Bob
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Another Baptist Passage
Matthew
25:31-46
- The
Final Judgment of God As Told By Christ
-
This
Scripture reading and Bible study about the final
judgment of Christ can be misinterpreted as
salvation
being works based
but goes much deeper than this. Here you'll learn
how God will seperate His people from those He does
not know.
Verses about the woman washing the feet of
Jeusus with perfume are from New American
Standard Bible
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