of the 20,000 inhabitants of Pompeii, there are some 2,000 people lost their lives at this famous

volcano. Among the 2,000 people who died, there was a woman who obviously loved her jury

more than anything else in the world.

Let me tell you about her.

As the deadly rain of fire came down,

she decided that she's going to escape by going into the sea

and escape the city by boat, which is a very wise plan.

But this rich and beautiful woman stayed behind just a little too long,

long enough to collect her much-loved collection of jewelry.

And she wanted to take as much as she could carry,

snatching her rings and in a haste tried to thrust him in her fingers.

And there was no time to hunt for a box or for a bag in which she could cram as many of these precious stones as possible.

So finally, she picked up as many as she could in her own hands and clasped on them and she rushed into the streets

clutching the pearls and the diamonds and the rubies and the sapphires and the gold and the earrings

that value of that jury but in today's dollars it'd be worth hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars.

But she delayed too long, and the poisonous fumes overcame her as she ran out with all the trinkets in her hands.

And she stumbled and fell and died clutching the things that she prized so much under

the ashes of Pompeii.

How do I know that?

Recently there has been an archaeological excavation, and they found her.

She's still lovely, and in her hands were still laden by her jury.

In Mark chapter 8, the Lord Jesus Christ asks a question.

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