Mary took about a pint of pure gnaud, an expensive perfume.

She poured it on Jesus' feet and wiped his feet with her hair.

John 12, verse 3.

Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread.

Treasured possession was written and read by Sheridan Boise.

John chapter 12 verses 1 to 8.

6 days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

Here a dinner was given in Jesus' honour. Martha served while Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with him.

Then Mary took about a pint of pure gnaad, an expensive perfume.

She poured it on Jesus' feet and wiped his feet with her hair, and the house was filled

with the fragrance of the perfume.

But one of the disciples, Judas Ascariot, who was later to betray him, objected,

why wasn't this perfume sold and the money given to the poor?

It was worth a year's wages.

He did not say this because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief.

As keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put into it.

Leave her alone, Jesus replied. It was intended that she should save this perfume for the day of my

burial. You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me.

Treasured possession.

My father first locked eyes on my mother at a party in London.

Next he gate crashed a second party, then organised a third just to see her again.

Finally he asked my mum out for a country drive, picking her up in his old rover sedan, his treasured possession.

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