"And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head." The question for us in this story is not, How can we be like that woman and give more? Rather, it is What does this story have to do with the gospel of Jesus Christ?