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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Bob
Pardue
is a member of First
Baptist
Church
in Lancaster, SC. He is ordained
from Rich Hill Baptist in
Lancaster.
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