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Eternal life: its grounds experience and practice
Eternal life its grounds experience and practice Author:Neil Taylor Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE TYPICAL SERVICE LOVE IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, there came unto him a woman having an ala... more »baster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat. But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste? For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor. When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me. For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always. For in that sKe hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial. Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.—Matt. xxvi. 6-13. Mark xiv. 3-9. John xii. 1-8. THE full meaning of the deed of Mary requires that we refer to the narratives of the three Evangelists by whom it is recorded. Usually supplementary of each other, they are in the record of this deed specially so. The feeling of dissatisfaction occasioned by the deed is, by Mark, ascribed to some that were present; by Matthew, to the disciples; while John accounts for it by ascribing the origin of it to Judas. The whole three mark the effect of the interference on Mary; but Matthew seems to emphasise the effect of their opposition upon the Doer, for the purpose, apparently, of justifying the rebuke administered. And while each narrative supplies slight touches not found in either of the others, it is much more remarkable to notice how they harmonise substantially. All the main points are noticed by each. The motive of Mary in the deed; the indignation of the disciples; the rebuke they receive from the Master, a...« less