'And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,
as He sat at meat, there came a woman
having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious;
and she brake the box, and poured it on His head.
And there were some that had indignation within themselves,
and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence,
and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her?
she hath wrought a good work on me.
For ye have the poor with you always,
and whensoever ye will ye may do them good:
but Me ye have not always.
She hath done what she could:
she is come aforehand to anoint My body to the burying.
Verily I say unto you,
Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world,
this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.'
(Mark 14:3-9)
Hello
@Faither,
With the greatest respect to you, I cannot accept your interpretation of this passage, for it goes beyond what is actually written. For the woman's act of faith, though commended by the Lord, was not in any way elevated by Him to the height of the work He fulfilled at the cross.
In Christ Jesus
Chris
This isn't really my interpretation of the woman with the alabaster box, it's my gifted teachers.
He's graduated now, but taught almost daily for 50 years. He was Dr. of theology from Stanford University and had a Dr. In education. He amassed the largest collection of biblical manuscripts in private hands, only the Vatican had more.
He was fluent and taught in dozens of languages. Owned Bibles in over a dozen languages in which he would compare to the original Greek to show which had the closest translation.
He collected the manuscripts, dead sea scrolls, Hebrew scrolls, Bible's written by every author, Martin Luther collection, 2nd and 3rd century original manuscripts, filling 3 floors of a Cathedral to preserve it for the world. To honor the people who gave their lives for many of those texts.
With all this said, he was a teachers teacher who in his early years was a trouble shooter for churches who were stagnant. His messages of Faith correctly understood would get these churches growing again. He also taught in front of huge crowds in China, and many other countries. He provides his message of Faith globally to this day as he has for the last 65 years.
Without any doubt, he could be the greatest Bible teacher since the apostle Paul. So the " interpretation" isn't something I just dreamed up or is my opinion. The year he died, he spent almost two years on the first three chapters of Romans. He would look at every word, in every translation, and not only compare them to the original manuscripts, but the things they are currently finding today in the unearthed trash piles in the Holy lands.
So I thought I would take a minute to let you know exactly what went into what your disagreeing with.
