Then she broke the flask and poured it on His head. Mark 14:3 The Bible doesn’t tell who this woman is and yet nine verses of her encounter with Jesus hold so much hope for us. Alabaster jars would be filled with expensive perfume to keep them pure and unspoiled, they are sealed with wax to retain and preserve the scent, when…

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! …Behold, your King is coming to you. Zechariah 9:9   Can you ever imagine a King coming to ordinary people like us? It is always the other way around; people go to meet the king. Here we have a King, a lowly King, a humiliated King riding not on a majestic horse but on a colt…

Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth. 1 Peter 2:22     In writing to Jewish believers struggling amid persecution, Peter quotes Isaiah 53:9 and encourages them to conduct themselves courageously above reproach. Christ is our model and we ought to follow His steps. The suffering of Christ is unjust, He was beaten, reviled, mocked, rebuked but continued…