+ The gospel passage is the moving story of the penitent woman who ministers to Jesus at the house of a Pharisee, when he was invited to dine there. It has been said that this person was Mary Magdalene. Scripture scholarship has suggested to us on the one hand that it was Mary Magdalene, but also some say that it was not Mary at all. Mary, in any event, did have seven demons driven from her (which means in essence all vice and negative-spirit-like influences). The woman here today, is simply a sinner who had experienced the mercy and love of Jesus who treated her with kindness, compassion and forgiveness.
In washing his feet with her tears and drying them with her hair and then anointing them with precious ointment this woman was prophesying that, within a very in a short time, the body of the crucified Lord would be anointed with a similar precious ointment and his body sealed into the earth.
The Pharisees objection to Jesus' courtesy and generosity to the woman is typical. Whitened sepulchers they were! But Jesus assured the woman that it was her great faith that has saved her and was the cause of the forgiveness of her sins and would keep her unto the day of his resurrection!
Jesus simply wants our attention, our devotion and our promise to go out and encourage others to get to know him who is Savior, Lord and most of all Friend
May we do this, this day!
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