So maybe this woman was in a crowd somewhere when Jesus was speaking about the Beatitudes. No one in their right mind would take something that is costly and literally just pour it out on a circumstance that is of no consequence to them. For this woman to have done this, she must have had some life-changing experience with the son of man, Jesus Christ, the savior of the world. The thing is that this woman came with this alabaster jar filled with costly ointment, pure nard, and she poured it out on Jesus. It does not tell us her name, it does not tell us where she came from, neither does it tell us whether she had any previous encounters with Jesus. The Bible doesn’t tell us a whole lot about this woman. Now a woman came in with an alabaster jar full of costly ointment. He was at Bethany at the house of Simon and he was at table. Mark continues in chapter 14 by describing where Jesus was at that time. Right now in our beautiful twin Island state of Trinidad and Tobago, we have major issues with exactly that, being people of truth people of honesty and people of integrity. To be honest in all of our undertakings and to be people of light. So those first two verses alone in Mark chapter 14 challenges us to be people of truth. The first point to note here is that if we are a people of truth then it would not matter or rather it should not matter when this “truth” is being presented and to whom. They knew that if they had tried to arrest Jesus, an innocent man, during the festivities where there were lots of his followers around, they would not have been able to do so. Clearly all that they were doing was underhanded since they did not do it during the festivities because they did not want to create a disturbance among the people. That’s another way of saying they were looking for some way of bringing false evidence against an innocent man to put him to death. We see that it is on the second day before the Passover and the Feast of unleavened bread, and the chief priests and scribes were looking for some way to arrest Jesus and to put him to death. The Passion of Christ according to Saint Mark starts at chapter 14 in his gospel. So what I proposed to do over the next few days into Holy Week, starting today, is to focus on one aspect of the Gospel and hopefully at Easter time, I would have been able to cover them all. There is a tremendous amount happening in this gospel, and if looked at in a holistic View, very important details that may impact positively on our spiritual journey can be lost. This year, The Passion of Christ is being read from Mark’s account of the Gospel.
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