In Mark 14 v3ff we read how our Saviour was in the home of Simon the Leper,it obivious that Jesus must have healed him,for the law as regards leprosy required that they should be be seperated from society because it is contagious (Leviticus),it is not a problem now as it can be treated with antibiotics and other medicines. So here we have Jesus in this home and a woman we believe was Mary (John12 v 3),it was Mary's brother Jesus he had raised from the dead(John 11),she had a great devotion for Jesus, which is shown by what she was about to do.She had a flask full of very expensive perfume,and she went to were Jesus was,broke the flask and poured the perfume over Jesus head.Mark tells us that those present became angry at what she did,Judas was the one who led the angry mob. Judas said that it could have been sold and the money given to the poor (John 12) , but Jesus would have none of that,and this is what He said,'Why are you bothering her? she had done a beautiful thing, One writer said the following,'If love is true,there must always be a certain extravagance in it.It does not nicely calculate the less or more. It is not concerned to see how little it can decently give.If it gave all it had,the gift would still be too little. there is a recklessness in love which refuses to count the cost'.
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