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When Mary anoints Jesus’ feet in John 12:1-11, she is criticised for her lavish generosity.  Why waste this expense honouring one man when it might have been used to feed the masses?  Jesus explains that she has kept this gift for his burial and yet she anoints him whilst he is still living.  Perhaps, as she has witnessed her brother being raised from the dead, her action expresses her faith in the resurrection; that the cross will be a second Exodus, like that referred to in Isaiah 43:16-21, when her people were led to freedom.  This is the exodus Isaiah promises, a new thing, leading to freedom for the whole of creation, giving us a new way of living.  A way which honours every person as precious and valued, worthy of excessive love and lavish attention.  Judas is wrong, not because he has dubious motives, or because he has a practical, utilitarian approach to how best to use resources but because he does not recognise that there are no limits to God’s love, that God also holds nothing back, but will pour out everything for love of us.  Her extravagant devotion leads us to ponder how we respond to the limitless love God pours on us and whether we, like God, perceive others as also worthy of such lavish attention. 

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