What a contrast between the woman who anointed Jesus with the very precious ointment, and Judas Iscariot who goes to the chief priests and asks what they will give him to deliver Jesus up to them, and accepts 30 silverlings.

She will be remembered "wherever this good news may be proclaimed in the whole world, what this one did shall also be spoken of - for a memorial of her."

Of Judas he says"Son of Man doth indeed go, as it hath been written concerning him but woe to that aman through whom the Son of Man is delivered up! good it were for him if that man had not been born."

It would seem that the tipping point for Judas is the waste, as he perceives it, of this very expensive ointment, "which could have been sold for much and given to the poor" Matthew does not attribute these words to Judas, but John does in his gospel and adds that Judas didn't say this because he cared about the poor but because he held the common purse and stole from it.

Thou cannot serve God and Mammon. Beware the hold that money can have on us and our decisions, indeed our very life.

The chief priests and the scribes and the elders to the people gather together at the court of the chief priest called Caiaphas and they consulted together that they might take Jesus by guile and kill him and they said, "Not at the feast, that there may not be a tumult among the people"

The time they plan to avoid is the very time in which it will happen for God does not follow man's plans but His own in working out his purposes within our history. Jesus will be the Passover lamb and will die at the time of the evening sacrifice.