Verily I | 8 burying. For the verily I say unto | say unto you, | poor ye have you, Wheresoever the| Wheresoever this | always with you; gospel shall be | gospel shall be | but me ye have not preached throughout | preached in the | always. the whole world, | whole world, that | that also which this| also which this | woman hath done | woman hath done | shall be spoken of | shall be spoken of | for a memorial of | for a memorial of | her. | her. | [Footnote 1: Or, _a flask_.] [Footnote 2: Gr. _pistic nard_, pistic being perhaps a local name. Some take it to mean _genuine_; others, _liquid_.] [Footnote 3: The word in the Greek denotes a coin worth about seventeen cents.] [Footnote 4: Or, _box_.] [Footnote 5: Or, _carried what was put therein_.] [Footnote 6: Or, _Let her alone:_ it was _that she might keep it_.] [Footnote a: This anointing has nothing in common with that given by Luke (§ 59), except the fact of a woman anointing the Saviour's feet, and the name Simon, which was common. The former was in Galilee, this is at Bethany near Jerusalem. There the host despised the woman who anointed, here her brother is one of the guests, and her sister an active attendant. There the woman was "a sinner," a notoriously bad woman, here it is the devout Mary who "sat at the Lord's feet and heard his word" months before (§ 104). There the host thought strange that Jesus allowed her to touch him, here the disciples complain of the waste. There the Saviour gave assurance of forgiveness, here of perpetual and world-wide honor. Especially notice that here the woman who anoints is anticipating his speedy death and burial, of which at the former time he had never distinctly spoken. In view of all these differences it is absurd to represent the two anointings as the same, and outrageous on such slender ground to cast reproach on Mary of Bethany.] § 142. JUDAS, STUNG BY THE REBUKE OF JESUS AT THE FEAST, BARGAINS WITH THE RULERS TO BETRAY JESUS Tuesday Night in Jerusalem