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Sunday next before Easter.

THE EVENTS OF THE SUNDAY.

"THEN Jesus six days before the passover came John xii. 1. to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been

dead, whom he raised from the dead."

3-9.

"And being in Bethany, in the house of Si- Mark xiv. mon 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.

And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?

For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to

poor. And they murmured against her.

the poor.

And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? She hath wrought a good work on

me.

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For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.

She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.

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."

See also St. Matt. xxvi. 6—13.

Luke xix. 28.

John xi. 55-xii. 11.

LECTURE I.

THE WARNING GIVEN AT BETHANY.

ST. MARK xiv. 7.

"Ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always."

THESE words form in themselves an apt introduction to the closing scenes of our Lord's ministry; they were doubtless intended to forewarn the disciples of His approaching death. We find a yet clearer intimation of it in the following verse: -"She is come aforehand to anoint My body to the burying." And it is probably from its immediate connexion with our

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