Context: Mat 26:06 Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,
Mat 26:7 a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head, as he sat at table.
Mat 26:8 But when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste?
Mat 26:9 For this ointment might have been sold for a large sum, and given to the poor.”
Mat 26:10 But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me.
Mat 26:11 For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.
Mat 26:12 In pouring this ointment on my body she has done it to prepare me for burial.
Mat 26:13 Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.”
Mat 26:14 Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests
Mat 26:15 and said, “What will you give me if I deliver him to you?” And they paid him thirty pieces of silver.
Mat 26:16 And from that moment he sought an opportunity to betray him.
RESOURCES
What are the commands of Jesus Christ which we need to obey? In disciple-making, Jesus commanded the following in Matthew 28:20: “teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you…” What are the commands that we are to follow and teach others as identified by Jesus’ use of the imperative mood in the Greek?
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