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Matthew chapter 26 verses 6 and 7

now when Jesus was at Bethany and 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 the table.

Just imagine that scene.

All these people gathered together at Simon's house and all the sudden their attention is drawn to this woman Matthew leaves are unnamed almost uniquely enabling us to imagine ourselves in her shoes.

And unlike the disciples around Jesus, she realizes Jesus is about to die.

She's holding this alabaster flask of very expensive perfume in her hands worth about a year's

wages. So you can imagine, that's hard to imagine, like a 50,000 dollar flask of perfume.

She takes it and trembling she treads slowly toward Jesus.

She stops by his side. I can just picture him looking up at her.

And in this moment there was sure to shock that entire room, she removes the lid from the flask and starts pouring the perfume over his head.

You can almost smell the fragrance as it fills the air and at the same time feel the awkward tension that accompanies it.

As these drops of expensive oil just cascade down Jesus' face, the disciples actually

say this is a waste, but Jesus says, this is no waste.

This is no waste. This is beauty.

It says later, this woman has done a beautiful thing to me.

And I just think, what makes this so beautiful?

I think there's different things that market.

This woman's offering, it was sacrificial. It was costly. It was selfless. It's like she doesn't even

care what this may mean for her. What others may say about her, how others may respond to her.

It's sacrificial, it's selfless, and it's satisfying.

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