Mary had a sense of Jesus' death approaching
and it gave her some grief but not despair,
because He had said that He would rise on the
third day. Her brother had been raised by Him
so see knew what Jesus meant.

Moved by her affection for Jesus, she wanted
to show it outwardly. She got up and picked up
an alabaster box of oinment of spikenard, she
broke the seal, and poured the expensive
perfume over His head and on His feet; then
she took her
hair and
wiped His
feet, while
the room
filled with
its fragrance.