Monday, September 16: “Lasting Memories, for Better or Worse”

John 12: 3: “Mary then took a pound of very costly perfume of pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.”

There’s an interesting contrast here: Judas the disciple of Jesus, a dishonest treasurer who wasn’t concerned with the poor (v. 6), and Mary of Bethany the friend of Jesus, who loved to sit at His feet and thought nothing of anointing them with almost a year’s wages worth of costly oil. Vastly different in focus, they have one thing in common: They are still remembered for their acts which expressed what was important to them (Mark 14: 9; Luke 22: 48).