This woman loved extravagantly... This jar of perfume cost a year's wages. Let's put it this way - something like $50,000 today. This was most likely this woman's only means to getting married. As this woman poured this perfume over Jesus' head the fragrant aroma filled the room. When we love the Lord with all our heart, soul, mind, body - it's undeniable. Its fragrant effects are everywhere. How can we love our Lord extravagantly?
In the second part, the Lord's Supper is occurring over Passover (which is going on right now for our Jewish friends). It is a time to remember when death passed over the Israelites because of the blood shed by the lamb (and the blood was painted on the door of the Israelites). Jesus was the sacrificial lamb once and for all and because His blood covers us - death cannot take us. We're talking eternal death in hell here. Every time we take communion (grape juice/wine and bread) we remember that Jesus gave His body and blood for us. This is what we do in remembrance. We may do many things in remembrance of a family member who passed away or a tragic event like 9/11 - we commune at the table and partake of the bread and wine in remembrance of what Jesus did on the cross.
When we remember what Jesus did on the cross, we recognize that because of Jesus we have one commonality - that we're sinners but Jesus saved us. No matter how different we were before, how different our backgrounds are or our preferences -- we all have something in common that brings us together - that we share in the salvation that Jesus gives us. So we come together and partake of one bread and one cup signifying that in Jesus we are the same - sinners saved by grace.
When we have this huge thing in common - nothing can separate us - not status, not wrongdoing (because we're all wrongdoers), not preference -- When we remember Christ's death on the cross - we find that we are all the same, sinners saved by the grace of God. no worse, no better...
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