Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table. And when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste? For this could have been sold for a large sum and given to the poor.” But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me. In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial. Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”
Matthew 26:6-13
In the home of a leper, a woman anointed Jesus with ointment that would have cost her a year’s worth of income.
A leper. A woman. The Messiah.
He turned the world upside down by focusing on saving everyone. Not just the wealthy, the educated, or those who boasted in their own following of the law. In the final days of His life, He involved those on the margins in the preparations for how He would save mankind.
The way He spent time preparing for His death is one of the many things I love about Jesus.
