Father Snort

Brad Sullivan 5 Lent, Year C March 13, 2016 Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church, Bay City, TX Philippians 3:4b-14 John 12:1-8 No Price Tag on a Community of Grace As Mary was anointing Jesus with costly perfume, Judas was complaining that she was wasting the perfume, that instead it should have been sold, and the money given to the poor. Ok, he’s got a fair point, one which would have been better taken if he hadn’t been lying and stealing money from the common purse. The perfume cost 300 denarii, that’s almost a year’s worth of wages. In modern terms, let’s call it $50,000 worth of perfume that Mary poured onto Jesus’ feet. That certainly does seem extravagant. $50,000 could have gone a long way to helping out those in need. In the three other Gospels, Jesus even teaches to do just that. In Matthew 19, Mark 10, Luke 18, there was a young man who asked Jesus what he had to do to inherit eternal life, and