Paper 172:0-1
The Urantia Book
Students may read Paper 172:1.5-6 or all of sections 0-1
Jesus went to Bethany before he entered Jerusalem for the last time. While there, he attended a banquet with his friend Lazarus, and Martha helped serve the meal. Their sister, Mary, did something unexpected during the banquet. She came forward and anointed Jesus’ head and feet. Judas Iscariot and others objected to this. But Jesus defended Mary. He said, “Wherever the gospel is preached in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.”
When someone died, their body was anointed before burial. Why do you think Mary chose to anoint Jesus before he died? Jesus defended her actions when others criticized her. Jesus understood Mary’s good intentions. What does that mean?
O Wise Lord! We pay our homage to Thee.
We express our indebtedness to Thee.
We come to Thee through all good thoughts,
All good words, all good deeds. (Zoroastrianism)
Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us ;
And establish Thou the work of our hands upon us. (Judaism)
