Mark 14:1-3
1 After two days it was the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take Him by trickery and put Him to death. 2 But they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar of the people.” 3 And being in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, as He sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster flask of very costly oil of spikenard. Then she broke the flask and poured it on His head.
Those whose religion was challenged by God proving Himself with unmistakable signs and wonders did not want their system or their motives challenged, so they looked for ways to entrap and accuse Jesus Christ. They wanted Him dead, the murder of which the commandment they claimed to follow prohibited. Contrast this with the woman who gave such a valuable gift to honor Him. God seeks our sincere hearts bowed before Him. The price He paid of His life for ours overwhelms our cheap efforts and makes us debtors to grace and mercy.
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