MONDAY, MARCH 29, 2021📖GOSPEL "Let her observe this custom in view of the day of my burial!" A Reading From The Holy Gospel According To John (12, 1-11)

MONDAY, MARCH 29, 2021

📖GOSPEL 

"Let her observe this custom in view of the day of my burial!" 

A Reading From The Holy Gospel According To John (12, 1-11)

Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus lived, whom he had awakened from the dead. A meal was given in honor of Jesus. Martha was doing the service, Lazarus was among the guests with Jesus.

Now, Marie had taken a pound of a very pure perfume and of very great value; she spread the perfume on Jesus' feet, which she wiped off with her hair; the house was filled with the smell of perfume. Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, the one who was going to hand him over, then said: "Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred pieces of silver, which it would have given to the poor?" He spoke thus, not for the sake of the poor, but because he was a thief: as he held the common purse, he took what was put in it. Jesus said to her: "Let her observe this custom in view of the day of my burial!" Poor people, you will always have them with you, but me, you will not always have me. "

Now a large crowd of Jews heard that Jesus was there, and they arrived, not only because of Jesus, but also to see that Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead. The high priests then decided to kill Lazarus too, because many Jews, because of him, were leaving, and believed in Jesus.

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