No Middle Ground

1.  Cast Off The

It was two days before the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a cunning way to arrest Jesus and kill Him. “Not during the festival,” they said, “so that there won’t be a riot among the people.” While He was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, as He was reclining at the table a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured it on His head. (Mark 14:1-3)

2.  Cast Off The

A woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured it on His head. (Mark 14:3)

 For this perfume might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii. (Mark 14:5)

3.  Cast Off The

But some were expressing indignation to one another: “Why has this perfume been wasted? For this perfume might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor.” And they began to scold her. (Mark 14:4-5; See also: John 12:4-6)

 Jesus replied, “Leave her alone. Why are you bothering her? She has done a noble thing for me. You always have the poor with you, and you can do what is good for them whenever you want, but you do not always have me. She has done what she could; she has anointed my body in advance for burial.” (Mark 14:6-8)