JCS: Everything's Alright

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105 - Everything's Alright

I just helped some friends move already this morning and boy are my arms tired! Well, that's not really a joke, but it will explain if my typing is really off.

"Everything's Alright" is the continuation of the annointing of Jesus by Mary Magdalene. It also features Judas saying that the money spent on the perfume could have been spent on the poor, which I incorrectly reported was in yesterday's song (Judas comments on Mary being a prostitute, not the perfume in "Strange Thing Mystifying"). Ah, more Mary confusion. By tradition we've started to hold that the prostitute that Jesus heals is Mary, for some reason, despite the lack of proof within the Bible (but how we ignore the fact that Judas is Jesus' half-brother boggles my mind). Jesus did drive seven demons out of Mary (Luke 8:2) but nowhere does it say that she was a prostitute (or Jesus' wife, HA!).

Judas' response to the annointing with, "That money could have been spent on the poor," is met with an interesting response. Jesus' response, in turn, is also kind of weird: "Jesus said, "Let her alone. She's anticipating and honoring the day of my burial. You always have the poor with you. You don't always have me." I think Jesus is setting down some priorities here. Perhaps our worship of Christ is more important than ministry, maybe even much more important, than the other 4 purposes of the Church (evangelism, ministry, mission, fellowship). This is just me interpreting here, I'm not really sure. I guess this is just me asking at this point: is that how you would interpret this passage? And I'll leave it with that, finally, a short one :)