What does Jesus close his public ministry with? What does he say? What does he focus on? Why does it matter?

Mary pours out her entire flask of ointment on the feet of Jesus, a costly, sacrificial, and beautiful act of humility, service, and affection. In doing so, she becomes both a picture of the Church’s calling and a foreshadowing of Jesus’ own costly and sacrificial act on the cross.

Caiaphas suggests that they put Jesus to death as a political solution - that his death will spare the nation from being destroyed by the Romans. But there is a deeper theological meaning to his words, which he could not see - that his death would save a whole people.

Facing death often brings pain, confusion, and even anger, but Jesus has power over death.

What does it look like to love well? How might that shape how we view ourselves and others?

Jesus is the Divine Shepherd who promises us that nothing can ever snatch us out of his hand.

Jesus is the Good Shepherd who knows his sheep, calls them by name, and loves them enough to lay his life down for them, that they might have life and have it abundantly.

When Jesus and his disciples encounter a man born blind, the disciples want to know what caused the man’s blindness - his sin or his parents’ sin. But Jesus refocuses the question from what caused the man’s blindness to what God might be doing in and through the man’s blindness.

We are all by nature slaves to sin, but Jesus offers us the truth that can set us free.