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ANOINTING JESUS

ANOINTING JESUS. Mark 14:1-9. “ After two days was the feast of the P assover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.

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ANOINTING JESUS

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  1. ANOINTING JESUS Mark 14:1-9

  2. “After two days was the feast of the Passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.

  3. And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?

  4. For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her. And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me. For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.

  5. She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying. Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.”

  6. INTRODUCTION • Six days before the Passover, Mary anointed Jesus feet with a pound of ointment of spikenard. Judas questioned why the anointment was not sold for 300 pence and given to the poor (Jn. 12:1-7).

  7. “This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein” (Jn. 12:6).

  8. Now two days before the Passover, a woman enters the home of Simon the Leper and anoints the head of Jesus with the same type of ointment.

  9. 300 pence was about $50.00 in our currency. • Spikenard was produced from a rare plant that grew in India. It was very expensive, and many people saved for years to be able to provide this for their own funeral preparations.

  10. I. PREPARING FOR A FUNERAL

  11. The Custom • After the body of the deceased had been washed and anointed, the box that had contained the embalming spices was broken and fragments were buried with the departed.

  12. The Care • “She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.” • This is her testimony. This is her gift!

  13. In both ancient and modern Jewish practice, the body is ritually washed (in a process called tohorah) after death before being wrapped in a shroud. The practice of anointing varies over time and location, but in ancient tradition, the body was also anointed with oils and sometimes wrapped with aromatic herbs such as olive, laurel, palm and cypress to help fight the effects of the rapid decomposition that occurred in the Mediterranean heat.

  14. What she had in her heart, and in the power of her hands to do; she hath done according to her ability, and her good will; and if she had not done it now, she could not have done it at all.

  15. “And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey” (Matt. 25:15). • “Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea” (Acts 11:29).

  16. “If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen” (1 Pet. 4:11).

  17. II. PRETENTIOUS RIDICULE

  18. Internal Anger (Not Spoken) • The word “indignation” means “anger” or “outrage.” • “And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?”

  19. “Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them” (Psa. 69:24). • “But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath” (Rom. 2:8).

  20. External Anger (Spoken) • “For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.”

  21. “But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord” (Psa. 106:25). • “But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?” (Lk. 5:30).

  22. “And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them” (Lk. 15:2). • “Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer” (1 Cor. 10:10).

  23. III. PROVIDENTIAL TESTIMONY

  24. Treatment of the Sacrifice • “And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me. For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.”

  25. The Passover was near, but little did they know that their friend and teacher was about to become the ultimate sacrifice! • “For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself” (Heb. 9:26)..

  26. Testimony of a Savior • “Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.”

  27. COMMENDING THE IMPRACTICAL • Through the human perspective, was it practical to anoint Jesus with these costly ointments? • Was it practical for a widow to give every penny she had to the Lord? (Mark 12:44) • Was it practical to sell all their land and houses and lay the money at the apostles’ feet? (Acts 4:34, 35).

  28. Was it practical to put Judas in charge of the treasury? “This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein” (Jn. 12:6).

  29. We Get Too Bogged Down With The Cares of this world • “And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becomethunfruitful” (Mark 4:19).

  30. In short, Jesus, who had power over all things, concerned himself with the souls of men. • “No man that warrethentangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier” (2 Tim. 2:4).

  31. OUR DUTY IS TO PLEASE CHRIST! • “That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God” (Col. 1:10).

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