Day 26: Mark 14:3-9

“a beautiful thing”

A woman who broke an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume over Jesus is said to have done a beautiful thing (Mk. 14:6).  The beautiful thing she did was simply loving Jesus.  She poured the precious perfume worth three hundred denarii on Jesus' head out of love for Him.  The beautiful thing she did was having the same vision as the Lord.  By pouring the perfume with all her might, she was preparing Jesus for His burial, a vision that aligned with Jesus' willingness to lay down His life for our sins (v. 8).  This woman, who prepared the Lord's vision, did a beautiful thing in His sight.  What she did was an uncalculating, unconditional act of service.  She did not consider wasting three hundred denarii like some others did (vv. 4-5).  She broke the valuable alabaster jar without reservation because she loved the Lord.  Jesus Himself acknowledges what this woman did as a beautiful thing.