A woman anoints Jesus with pure nard

Published on Jesus Christ, Money, Support, Tithing, Woman

A woman poured costly perfume on Jesus Christ. It was her way of repenting. The Lord Jesus forgave her. This is not Mary the sister of Martha and Lazarus.

 

 

INTRODUCTION

 

A woman poured costly perfume on Jesus Christ. This was a huge financial sacrifice. She did it to honor him. This took place in the house of a Pharisee.

This is a lovely image of stewardship. What she did was costly, not cheap. It was done to honor Jesus Christ. It was offered with no expectation of anything in return. It was done with joy.

In our stewardship and tithing, we can be cheap. Or we can be exuberantly generous, like this woman. We can give without counting the cost.

When they give money, many people count the cost. They want something back.

 

BIBLE VERSES

 

Matthew 26:7. a woman came to him having an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table.

Mark 14:3. While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard—very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head.

Luke 7:37-38. Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee’s house, she brought an alabaster jar of ointment. 38 Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

 

A SIMILAR INCIDENT

 

There is a similar incident. But the woman was Mary the sister of Martha and Lazarus. She anointed Jesus’s feet and wiped his feet with her hair as a preparation for burial.

John 12:3. Therefore Mary took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed Jesus’s feet and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.

 

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