MARY'S heart had been touched, and she was in spirit and in heart associated with Christ's death. That was a new place altogether.
I suppose her heart had gone beyond her knowledge—" Here is the One I love going to die." Mary entered into that and gave it a voice. The Lord knew what she meant. She was no prophet, but her heart had the intuitive sense of what was coming on. They say that this Mary never went to the grave, and it does not appear that she did.
It was not as a sinner that Mary came, so she anointed His head as well as His feet.
It is striking how the disciples came out at the end; Judas led, and they all chimed in with him, that it was " waste." Mary's is the one single instance of any one entering into the mind of Christ. You never get that among the disciples; they never understood Him; and, on that account, I take it, it is to be told for a memorial of her.
In verse 10 you get the dreadful hardness of the chief priests. They consult to put Lazarus to death, because he had been raised up by the power of God.
In verse 20 it is true Greeks, not Hellenists.
He could not have had joint heirs, if He had not died to redeem them.
A living Messiah was a Jewish Messiah, but a crucified Messiah became the attractive point for the whole world.
" If any man serve me, let him follow me "; that recalls a line I read many years ago, " It is harder to live a Christian than to die a martyr."