8 Days Before #Easter Sunday - Mary's Magnificent Example #Passion Week

The Saturday before Palm Sunday or 8 days before Jesus Resurrection was one of celebration with close family and friends. They met at Mary, Martha and Lazarus house in Bethany. 

A Seder meal would be enjoying fellowship songs and great food!  and then Mary comes in and pours out 50,000 worth of ointment on Jesus' feet. Judas confronts her. Jesus honors her - she did this with view of His burial.

She appears to know He would die and wanted to publicly portray her deep debt and gratitude to the Lord.

So, this 8th day before Easter Sunday, expend your time, your effort and pour out your own self to Jesus as Lord.

TODAY'S READING - JOHN 12:1-8

¹Jesus, therefore, six days before the Passover, came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. 

²So they made Him a supper there, and Martha was serving; but Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with Him. 

³Mary then took a pound of very costly perfume of pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. 

⁴But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, who was intending to betray Him, said, 

⁵“Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and given to poor people?” 

⁶Now he said this, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief, and as he had the money box, he used to pilfer what was put into it. 

⁷Therefore Jesus said, “Let her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of My burial. 

⁸“For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me.”