Matthew 26:7, Mark 14:3 and Luke 7:36-38 all tell us about a woman who came having an alabaster flask of very precious oil of spikenard. “And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster cruse of ointment of pure nard very costly; [and] she brake the cruse, and poured it over his head.” This account, recorded in Mark 14:3, is more correctly interpreted as “she broke the seal” since the alabastrons of the day were often sealed, or made fast with wax, to prevent the perfume from escaping. It was not likely that she would break the cruse (sometimes translated “box”) itself when it was unnecessary; especially as the unguent, being liquid, would have been wasted, when it was very precious. Nor could she easily have poured it on his head from a broken cruse or flask. The woman who did exactly that received from Jesus what no other player in the Redemption Story received: His never-ending command that where the gospel is preached the story of her alabaster jar is to be told.

 

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