Welcome to the Jesus Image Podcast.

Wonderful Holy Spirit.

Anoint us, open our ears. Your word is live.

And let your word burn like a fire within us.

In Jesus' name. I'll begin in verse 1 of John 12.

Gunner, you'll go to Genesis 49.

I'm going to begin reading in verse 1 of John 12.

Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus, who had been

dead, whom he had raised from the

dead. There they made him a supper, and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at

the table with him. Then Mary took a pound of Spiknerd, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped

his feet with her hair, and the house was filled with the

fragrance of the oil. But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, who would betray him,

said, why was this fragrant oil not sold for 300 neri and given to the poor? This, he said,

not that he cared for the poor, which is typical when people have an issue with investing in worship, by the way.

They always ask, why don't you give it the poor, and they themselves don't give it the poor.

This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and had the money box, and he used to take what was put in it.

But Jesus said, let her alone.

She has kept this for the day of my burial.

For the poor you have with you always, but me you do not have always.

Now a great many of the Jews knew that he was there, and they came not for Jesus' sake only,

but that they might see also Lazarus, whom he

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