Notice how Mark presents Jesus as the Man of action, with so much happening immediately...
“For even the Son of
Man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give His life a
ransom for many” (10:45)
Now is not the time for action - Jesus just reclines for a meal (Mark 14:1-11)
In the home of Simon the leper, in the small village of Bethany, an unnamed woman breaks an alabaster box of spikenard to anoint Jesus’ head...Nardostachys jatamansi probably from Indian honeysuckle!
Meanwhile
the chief priests and scribes plot to have Jesus put to death thru trickery –
only when it suits them – not with all the Passover crowds in Jerusalem likely
to riot. How convenient for them that
Judas Iscariote, who thinks his master is a waste of this expensive spikenard
(worth a year’s wages) agrees to betray Him....when it’s convenient of course.
Time is of the essence here – the alabaster is broken, Jesus’ head is now anointed for burial...
Will they pull this off when it suits them?...or will Jesus reclining at table prove to be in ultimate control?
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