The Savior Anointed

 

The Savior Anointed

Mark 14:3–9; Matthew 26:6–13.

What reason is given for why the woman anointed the Savior with “very precious” (costly) ointment? What does Mark 14:8 imply that she understood? (see also Mark 9:31–32).

Well I am very partial to the scripture, because I think that woman are very intune with the Spirit.  This woman understood that Christ was the literal “Lamb of God” and he would be sacrificed to atone for us and save us.  She anointed Christ with such a costly ointment because she knew that he would be sacrificed (crucified) and she was anointing him for his burial and resurrection.

        Why did some of the disciples feel indignant and call her action a “waste”?

       I think that the disciples did not truly understand that the Savior would literally be killed for our sins and would literally have to give his life to save ours.  So by this woman anointing him, they felt as if she was wasting something expensive that was not going to be needed.

The Savior said that the woman had “wrought a good work” and that wherever the gospel would be preached, the woman’s deed would “be spoken of for a memorial of her” (Mark 14:6, 9). What did the woman do that made it an act worthy of the Savior’s praise and our remembrance?

She listened to the words of the Savior when he explained that their was a plan, and that part of this plan meant that he would be crucified, he would die, and then he would rise and live again.   She listened with her ears as well as her spiritual ears.

How is the woman an example to you? Write a paragraph describing some ways that you could give the Lord something valuable. (see Matthew 25:40).

The woman is an example to me of what I should be doing daily.  I should read of his words and apply them, I should listen with my spiritual ears in Sacrament meetings to the message that he is sending with the Holy Ghost.  We have to shut our eyes and sometimes feel the answers in our hearts and hear with our spiritual ears.