<p>26:7&nbsp;<i>A woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it</i>- The Greek&nbsp;<i>bar-utimos</i>&nbsp;uses a term,&nbsp;<i>utimos</i>, elsewhere used about the precious, costly blood of Christ. Matthew uses it about the &quot;price&quot; of the Lord's blood (27:6,9), as does Paul (1 Cor. 6:20; 7:23) and Peter (1 Pet. 2:7). The point is simple. The Lord's blood shed for us was and is the most valuable thing in existence, in the entire cosmos; and we should feel that when we take the cup which symbolizes it. And our response is to give our most valuable things, materially and otherwise, for Him.</p><p><i>On his head as he reclined at table</i>- The woman anointed the Lord&rsquo;s head in order to reflect her belief that He really was the Christ, the anointed one. She gave her life savings for this belief. It can be apparently painless to believe that Jesus is Christ, and yet the implications of accepting this simple fact can transform a life. What she did was surely rooted in her understanding of Song 1:12, where Solomon&rsquo;s lover has spikenard (s.w. LXX Jn. 12:3) which sends forth its smell &ldquo;While the king sitteth at his table&rdquo;. Clearly enough she saw Jesus right there and then as the King- even though His Kingdom was not of that world. Her love for Him, her reflection upon the Old Testament, and her perception of Him as her future Lord and King to the extent that she even then treated Him as such, so certain was her faith in His future victory and worthiness&hellip; this all motivated her to give the quintessence of her life&rsquo;s work for Him. And it should for us too.</p>