How can one person see the bigger picture while another is oblivious to the obvious?  At a time when there was a plot to kill Jesus, a woman close to Yeshua sensed trouble and took action.  Realizing that she could do nothing to prevent Yeshua’s death, she did what she could a couple of days prior to Passover:

And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as He (Jesus) sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster flask of very costly oil of spikenard. Then she broke the flask, and poured it on His head. ~ Mark 14:3 NKJV

The diners were shocked and criticized the woman, accusing her of wasting a commodity that was worth a year’s wages.  At the very least, they indicated it should have been sold and given to the poor.

But Jesus said, “Let her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for Me. For you have the poor with you always, and whenever you wish you may do them good; but Me you do not have always. She has done what she could. She has come beforehand to anoint My body for burial. Assuredly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her.” ~ Mark 14:6-9 NKJV (Emphasis added)

Satan is not “oblivious to the obvious”.  He immediately jumped on the opportunity of Judas’s dismay over the woman’s “waste”.  We know from that point on how the story takes its twisted path to Calvary’s cross.

¹⁰Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Him to them. ¹¹And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. So he sought how he might conveniently betray Him. ~ Mark 14:10-11 NKJV

But what just happened at dinner?  While Judas Iscariot was busy plotting the betrayal of the Messiah and the other disciples were enjoying a meal with Jesus, a woman follower sees the bigger picture and brought a most treasured possession to dinner.  She anointed Yeshua’s body right then and there, in case it would prove to be impossible later; believing that Jesus is the Lamb of God, soon to be sacrificed for our sins; Lord of Lords and King of Kings.

She did what she could – and today,

“what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her.”

If you enjoy reading about special people in history, you may like a previous post titled, What can you do?

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