Beautiful Waste: Mark 14:1-11
Cinematic retelling of the anointing at Bethany and Judas' betrayal
This is vivid retellings.
Two days before Passover, plots thickened in shadow. The chief priests and teachers of the law were looking for some sly way to arrest Jesus and kill him. "But not during the festival," they said, "or the people may riot." Meanwhile, in Bethany, at the home of Simon the Leper, Jesus reclined at table. A woman entered—Mark does not give her name—carrying an alabaster jar of pure nard, perfume worth a year's wages.…
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