ABSTRACT
The expense, the cost, was all which the mind of the objector fastened on; but the mind of Jesus saw, and his feelings honored, the end for which the expenditure was made. As Jesus sat at meat in the house of one of his friends, Mary, the sister of Lazarus, came with an alabaster box of precious ointment, and anointed his feet and wiped them with her hair, and brake the box, and poured the ointment on his head, so that the house was filled with the odor of the ointment. There is always something in death, and the appendages of death, which arrests attention and awakens serious thought. A dignity of person and manner which arrested the attention of strangers, and which fitted him for command, was not in him inconsistent with a deep and unaffected humility, to which those who saw him on his death-bed, bear ample testimony.
