Glad Tidings
From Jesus With Love Study Guide
The Woman the Word Can Never Forget
There is a story in the Gospel of Mark that is so beautiful that it charms everyone willing to listen. Like a precious jewel displayed in an ugly clay pot, it is set between two of the worst stories ever told, as the cross of Jesus was set between two wicked thieves.
The first of the three stories tells how "the chief priests and scribes" decided to put Jesus to death. The third tells of the even more shameful deed of one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, selling himself to the devil in order to betray Jesus to death. And in between is this exquisite story about the lady we can never forget.
No woman has ever performed a deed like hers. And Jesus bespoke for her act a special remembrance "wherever the gospel is preached all over the world" (Mark 14:9). That means it has to be an essential part of "the everlasting gospel" to be proclaimed by the three angels of Revelation 14. Therefore we must include in this series of lessons a special one about her! Although her story has shone with undimmed luster for nearly two thousand years, many people still do not know it.
All four of the Gospel writers tell about the incident, but each with different details. The full account emerges from the dust of ages an ancient mosaic brightly tinted but freshly discovered.
The first of the three stories tells how "the chief priests and scribes" decided to put Jesus to death. The third tells of the even more shameful deed of one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, selling himself to the devil in order to betray Jesus to death. And in between is this exquisite story about the lady we can never forget.
No woman has ever performed a deed like hers. And Jesus bespoke for her act a special remembrance "wherever the gospel is preached all over the world" (Mark 14:9). That means it has to be an essential part of "the everlasting gospel" to be proclaimed by the three angels of Revelation 14. Therefore we must include in this series of lessons a special one about her! Although her story has shone with undimmed luster for nearly two thousand years, many people still do not know it.
All four of the Gospel writers tell about the incident, but each with different details. The full account emerges from the dust of ages an ancient mosaic brightly tinted but freshly discovered.
