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Hi everyone. 
Welcome back to the logical. 

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Bible study podcast. 
Thanks again for tuning in 

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today. 
We're doing an exegesis on John 

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chapter 12. 
That's the passage. 

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You'll hear at mass today, so 
let's jump straight into it. 

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John chapter 12 verses 1 to 11 
Six days before the Passover. 

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Jesus went to Bethany where 
Lazarus was whom. 

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He had raised from the dead, 
they gave a dinner for him 

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there. 
Martha, waited on them and 

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Lazarus was among those at 
table, Mary brought in a pound 

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of very costly. 
Ointment pure nard, and with it,

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anointed the feet of Jesus 
wiping them with her hair. 

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The house was full of the scent 
of the ointment then Judas 

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Iscariot one of his disciples, 
the man who was to betray him 

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said why wasn't this ointment 
sold for three hundred denarii 

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and the money given to the poor.
He said this not because he 

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cared about the poor but because
he was a thief, he was in charge

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of the common fund and used to 
help himself to the 

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contributions. 
So Jesus said, leave her alone. 

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She had to keep this sent for 
the day of my burial. 

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You have the poor with, you 
always, you will not always have

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me. 
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Jews heard that he was there and
came not only account of Jesus, 

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but also to see Lazarus whom he 
had raised from the dead. 

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Then the chief priests decided 
to kill Lazarus as well. 

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Since it was on his account that
many of the Jews were leaving 

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them and believing in Jesus. 
So, what's the context of this 

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passage while? 
Just before this, in John's 

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gospel, the Sanhedrin have come 
together and they have plotted 

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to kill Jesus. 
They've decided the time has 

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come, they're going to kill 
Jesus. 

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When he comes into Jerusalem, 
Jesus has gone into Efrain and 

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the rest of the Jews have gone 
up to Jerusalem to get ready for

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the Passover. 
So verse 1, it's six days before

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the Passover, we learn six days 
before the Passover. 

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If we add it all up and we work 
out the timelines. 

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Means that this particular event
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happens on the Saturday evening 
before Jesus final week. 

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So this is the day before Palm 
Sunday to be specific. 

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We think we can narrow down the 
date here. 

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This is March 28, 33 ad Saturday
night on March 28, 33 ad now. 

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It's a bit confusing because in 
some years, you'll hear this 

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reading after Palm Sunday, but 
it actually would have taken 

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place on the night before Palm 
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We know that because the very 
next pass. 

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Yeah. 
The very next passage in the 

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Gospel of John is Jesus entering
on Palm Sunday. 

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So verse 1, Jesus came to 
Bethany and that's very short 

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walk from Jerusalem. 
It's just on the outskirts of 

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Jerusalem, where Lazarus was 
whom Jesus had raised from the 

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dead. 
So Jesus apparently spends bit 

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of time with Mary Martha and 
Lazarus there, his good friends 

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each night for the final week of
his life. 

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So in the final week of his life
from this Saturday on words, 

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Jesus does stuff in Jerusalem 
during the day but then he comes

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home to Bethany and stays with 
Mary Martha and Lazarus at 

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nighttime. 
That's the arrangement for the 

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next few days. 
Verse 2. 

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They gave her dinner for him 
there, so they're welcoming him 

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to their area. 
Remember, they see Jesus close 

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friends. 
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have always had faith in him and
they believe him to be the 

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Messiah. 
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Matthew account of this same 
story. 

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It appears that this scene here 
actually, is not taking place in

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their home. 
It's taking place in the house 

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of Simon. 
The leper, who also lives in 

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Bethany with Martha. 
Assisting. 

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So what's actually going on 
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Is there, not in Merriam 
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the lepers house, but Martha is 
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So Martha weights on them and 
she's Martha is often, you know,

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given a bad reputation. 
She is depicted as a Busybody. 

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But in this case, she's doing 
the normal custom that women 

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would do in that culture, when 
they're hosting a dinner, she is

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preparing a meal and she's 
waiting on them. 

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Lazarus was among those at 
table. 

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So he's been recently raised 
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friend of Jesus. 
And obviously, he wants to thank

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Jesus and spend a bit of time 
with him. 

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Verse 3. 
Mary, who's the other sister 

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brought in a pound of very 
costly or internment? 

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So very costly orange mint. 
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later. 
Learn that. 

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What she's got here is worth 
three hundred. 

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Denarii one denarii is one day's
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So what she brings in is 300 
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special ointment, this is 
probably the most expensive 

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thing that Mary Martha and 
Lazarus have and she's coming to

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use it. 
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it's in there is called Pure 
nard and that's actually a spice

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that was imported from From 
India, very expensive. 

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Basically, it's usually used as 
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after they've died, they would 
anoint people with this 

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particular spice called nard. 
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Jesus. 
Now, it appears that this isn't,

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although people would wash their
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wash the feet of the guests. 
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she's doing here because John 
specifically uses the word 

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anointing so it's not the normal
washing of feet before dinner. 

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This is a special kind of 
anointing that Mary chooses to 

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do deliberately as all see why 
she does that shortly. 

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Now, according to Mark and 
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his head is also anointed at 
this particular point. 

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Which would back up the theory 
that she's not just washing his 

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feet as part of the normal 
custom, she's doing a special 

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anointing here. 
She then wiped his feet with her

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hair. 
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or a towel to dry his feet, 
which would be the normal 

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protocol but Mary uses herself. 
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desire to serve, Jesus as the 
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She personally wants to give 
herself and to serve him 

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herself. 
So this is probably the same 

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scene as the anointing and Mark 
14, and Matthew 26, although, in

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that case, the woman isn't 
named, so it's the unnamed woman

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of Matthew 14. 
Sorry, Mark, 14, and Matthew 26.

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It's the same scene, but we 
don't want to confuse this scene

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with one in Luke. 
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So early in Jesus ministry, 
there's a scene at the house of 

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Simon. 
The Pharisee, not Simon the 

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leper here. 
It's a different Simon. 

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Simon the Pharisee You see in 
Luke chapter 7, there's a sinful

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woman who cries and wipes Jesus 
feet with her tears. 

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That is not the same scene as 
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So it's a different woman in 
Luke chapter, 7 who cries on his

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feet. 
Just keep that in mind. 

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So the house becomes full of the
scent of the ointment. 

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Why does John mentioned that? 
It seems like an insignificant 

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detail will firstly. 
It probably signifies Mary's 

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overflowing generosity and also 
it's a word for fragrance. 

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The word. 
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scent is usually used in 
reference to liturgical 

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sacrifices. 
Offered to God. 

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So, this whole house is becoming
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liturgical ointment. 
Perhaps it's supposed to signify

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that it's getting ready for 
Jesus, sacrifice to God, that he

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himself was going to do on the 
cross. 

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So it's almost like a liturgical
seen. 

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Perhaps also, Scholars note, 
this is a strong indication that

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an eyewitness, wrote those words
because how else would they know

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about the the smell of the 
ointment. 

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Verse for Judas, Iscariot the 
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So John here, mentions he's 
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The role that Judas is going to 
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And he does that by highlighting
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So he's already setting up the 
kind of man, that Judas is his 

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quite selfish. 
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Judas. 
He doesn't appear heaps in the 

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gospels, but we do know from 
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quite a selfish person who loves
money. 

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So, Judas speaks up. 
He says, why wasn't this 

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ointment? 
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and then the money given to the 
poor, that's actually a fair 

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question. 
For most people to ask in this 

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situation. 
However, John tells us that the 

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reason John asks is not actually
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it's for something else. 
Now in verse 6, we learn of this

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common fund that the disciples 
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being part of a traveling 
Ministry, they had a collective 

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box or a bag that they had with 
all the donations, so it has 

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money in it and Judas is in 
charge of this Collective money.

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The ministry would use this 
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Followers and Disciples of Jesus
could give donations to the 

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common fund and then the 
disciples would spend it on food

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as required, so that they could 
keep doing Ministry. 

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Basically, Judas is in charge of
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tells us Judas said this, not 
because he cared about the poor,

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but because he was a thief, he 
was in charge of the common fund

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and used to help himself to the 
contributions. 

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So in other words, Judas wants 
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so that then they could get 
money. 

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And then Judas himself, could 
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it had been given to the poor. 
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And as we know, it's giudices 
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leads him to betray Jesus 
because he accepts the bribe of 

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money. 
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Jesus. 
So that's what Judas says. 

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Let's sell and give it to the 
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Jesus says, leave her alone. 
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with Judas. 
He says, Mary has in fact on the

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right thing. 
Jesus goes on she had to keep 

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this send for the day of my 
burial. 

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Now this phrase could mean a 
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Most translations have it this 
way where she had to keep this 

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sent for the day of my burial. 
And in that case, Kees de is in 

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the sense of General time. 
So Jesus isn't saying I'm dying 

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today but he's saying it's 
around about the time of my 

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death. 
So in that case, apparently both

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Jesus and Mary perceived that 
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Mary is doing here is she is 
anointing him in advance of his 

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death. 
She knows his death is coming. 

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So she's anointing him with this
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his death later on after Jesus 
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Brings a huge amount of similar 
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his death and that's in 19:39. 
But other translations have this

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verse, as let her keep this for 
the day of my burial. 

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So that would be like a future 
tense. 

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And in that case, she's not 
trying to anoint him right now 

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in this scene. 
But rather she's just washing 

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his feet in the normal way 
that's Fit For A King. 

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Like she's instead of washing 
his feet with water. 

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She's washing his feet with oil,
that's possible. 

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But I think the way most 
translations have it as she had 

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to keep this sent for the day of
my burial as in. 

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She is actually anointing him. 
In this case, that makes more 

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sense of the language John 
users. 

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And also the fact that Matthew 
and Mark say his head was 

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anointed at this point. 
It does suggest that he's at 

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Intel. 
She is intending to anoint him 

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in this scene. 
Verse 8, Jesus goes on, you have

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the poor with you always, but 
you will not always have me. 

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Some are found that to be quite 
a disturbing phrase, Jesus. 

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You will always have the poor 
with you. 

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In fact that's a quote from 
Deuteronomy 15. 

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So it's the teaching of God in 
the Old Testament as well. 

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Deuteronomy 15:11 says the land 
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persons So what is Jesus saying 
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While he certainly not 
discouraging giving money to the

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poor because elsewhere He 
commands that his disciples do 

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that. 
So here he's just making a 

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comparison. 
He's saying that there will 

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always be poor in the land who 
need money. 

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But on the other hand Jesus will
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not forever. 
So Jesus is saying that he is 

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much more precious and important
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So it's right for the disciples 
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For the time being while he's 
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most important thing and 
spending time with him is the 

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most important thing. 
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something else. 
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house of, well, not necessarily 
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not in mirror in Martha's house,
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said to Mary, and Martha in 
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Remember when Jesus says, Martha
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Mary has chosen the better part 
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master. 
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teaching the most important 
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good things we can do. 
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spending time and attention on 
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The focus needs to be on Jesus 
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So that's the end of that same 
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Meanwhile, a large number of 
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referring to the Jewish leaders 
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played that. 
They're going to kill him. 

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They heard that he was there and
came not only account, not only 

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on account of Jesus, but also to
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from the dead. 
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Jewish leaders from Jerusalem. 
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Bethenny because Jesus isn't 
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Anymore. 
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Bethany. 
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there to hear and learn from 
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him and that they're going to 
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Now they're here to to see him. 
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because they've worked out that 
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them as well. 
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decide to kill Lazarus, as well.
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Lazarus has already been killed 
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Well, he, he died once shortly 
before this Now, what's going on

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here? 
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Well, why would the Jewish 
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raised from the dead and in that
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the consequences are. 
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resulted in, but it's more 
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believe that. 
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dead at all. 
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leaders never actually got to 
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thing but they certainly 
planning to here and John now 

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tells us why they want to kill 
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Since it was on his account that
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them and believing in Jesus. 
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people in Jerusalem were 
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worried that, that could lead to
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And then, the Romans would come 
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Jewish leaders don't want that. 
And they've worked Doubt that 

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one of the main reasons people 
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starting this big Groundswell of
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Is because of the miracle, he 
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figured that the best way to 
solve this problem is to get 

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Lazarus out of the picture, get 
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about Jesus, so that lets kill 
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That's their plan. 
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statement that not only of the 
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they're also leaving the Jewish 
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John chapter, Verse 10. 
He says it was on the account of

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Lazarus that many of the Jews 
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in Jesus. 
So the Jewish leaders are losing

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followers as a result of Jesus. 
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why they want Jesus and Lazarus 
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That's the end of the passage. 
So, that's the scene in the 

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house of Bethany where Jesus is 
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Now, the very next thing that 
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overnight. 
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from Jesus in, John, it's the 
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The next day, it's Palm Sunday 
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Now, where do we find this? 
In the catechism of the Catholic

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church. 
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Catholic Church understand this 
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And how does it develop, 
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We only have one reference to it
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So that's in the section about 
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love for the poor. 
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what part of the passage that's 
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So I'll read out this entire 
paragraph because it takes a 

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really interesting and makes a 
really interesting application 

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of what Jesus says about Paul. 
All people in John, chapter 12 

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here, beginning with the Old 
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juridical measures such as the 
Jubilee year of forgiveness, of 

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deaths, prohibition of loans, at
interest and the keeping of 

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collateral the obligation to 
tithe the daily payment of the 

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day. 
Laborer the right tickling Vines

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and Fields all answer. 
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for the poor will never cease 
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Therefore I command. 
You you shall open wide your 

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hand to your brother. 
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the land. 
Jesus makes these words his own 

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quote the poor you will always 
have with you but you do not 

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always have me unquote in so do 
in so doing he does not soften 

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the vehemence of the former 
oracle's against buying the poor

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for silver and the needy for a 
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But rather invites us to 
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the poor who are his brethren. 
When her mother approached her 

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for caring for the poor and the 
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Rose of Lima said to her. 
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sick, we serve Jesus, we must 
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because in them, we serve Jesus.
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that in a sense when Jesus, he 
is says, you will not always 

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have the poor, but you will 
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He is in a sense identifying 
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whenever we serve the poor, we 
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well. 
So that's a really interesting 

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connection from the passage. 
So, I'll put that full catechism

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reference in the show notes as 
well. 

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