2 Kings 13:1-14:22; Jeremiah 49:1-39; Hebrews 13:7-25
Bethany…there they made him a supper. John 12:1-2
We cannot be certain that this occasion was the same as in Mark 14:3-9, but it does seem likely. If so, a delightful picture unfolds. Mark records that the home belonged to “Simon the leper”, and he was sitting alongside Lazarus “which had been dead”. It is unthinkable that Simon was still a leper, so with the Lord was one living who was changed, and one who had been dead but was raised. After this sweet picture of the Church in Heaven, there is a foregleam of Israel’s restoration (John 12:12-15) and the Gentiles blessed (vv. 20-21). And all because “A corn of wheat [would] fall into the ground and die” (v. 24). —Phil Coulson
Ransomed now, accepted, free, safe from judgement, Lord, in Thee,
Praise the Father, through the Son, who so vast a work hath done. —John Cennick