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What Mary did is being spoken of as a memorial to her.

BibleGateway: Mark 14:1-11

ESV Text: Mark 14:1-11


KJV Text:

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     1 After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. 2 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people. 3 And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. 4 And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made? 5 For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her. 6 And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me. 7 For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always. 8 She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying. 9 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her. 10 And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests, to betray him unto them. 11 And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.(KJV)


Hymn: TLH 399:
Thee Will I Love, my Strength

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1. Thee will I love, my Strength, my Tower; 
Thee will I love, my Hope, my Joy; 
Thee will I love with all my power, 
With ardor time shall ne’er destroy. 
Thee will I love, O Light Divine, 
So long as life is mine. 

2. Thee will I love, my Life, my Savior, 
Who art my best and truest Friend; 
Thee will I love and praise forever, 
For never shall Thy kindness end; 
Thee will I love with all my heart, 
Thou my Redeemer art. 

3. I thank Thee, Jesus, Sun from heaven, 
Whose radiance hath bro’t light to me; 
I thank Thee, who hast richly given 
All that could make me glad and free; 
I thank Thee that my soul is healed 
By what Thy lips revealed. 

4. Oh, keep me watchful, then, and humble 
And suffer me no more to stray; 
Uphold me when my feet would stumble, 
Nor let me loiter by the way. 
Fill all my nature with Thy light, 
O Radiance strong and bright! 

5. Oh, teach me, Lord, to love Thee truly 
With soul and body, head and heart, 
And grant me grace that I may duly 
Practice fore’er love’s sacred art. 
Grant that my every thought may be 
Directed e’er to Thee. 

6. Thee will I love, my Crown of gladness; 
Thee will I love, my God and Lord, 
Amid the darkest depths of sadness, 
Not for the hope of high reward– 
For Thine own sake, O Light Divine, 
So long as life is mine.