Could Have

After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people. And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made? For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her. And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought  a good work on me. For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always. She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying. Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.-Mark 14:1-9***Less than 33 1/2 years after Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and born into the tribe of Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin, Jesus was inside a home in Bethany in Judea with his disciples and others. While in the home, Jesus used the actions of Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazarus, to teach and speak of his upcoming death and burial, and reveal a message regarding the poor. Shortly thereafter, Jesus was betrayed by Judas Iscariot, the disciple and apostle. Jesus was arrested, crucified, buried in a tomb, resurrected, seen by over 500 people, and returned to heaven. Over 1,500 years earlier, Aaron and his brother Moses were born into the tribe of Levi. When Moses was 80 years old and Aaron was 83, they led their fellow Israelites away from Egyptian slavery, across the divinely parted Red Sea, and into the desert wilderness of Shur, according to the commands of the Lord God. Months thereafter, in the desert wilderness of Sinai, in the region of Mount Sinai, the Israelites heard the voice of the Lord God proclaim the Ten Commandments to them, and the Lord God began giving Moses judgments, statutes and laws for the Israelites, the treasured and chosen people of the Lord God. The Israelites were to prosper and not lack anything in the Promised Land, the land of milk and honey that the Lord God promised to give to Abraham (Abram the Hebrew), and to Abraham's son Isaac, and to Isaac's youngest fraternal twin son Jacob (Israel), and to their descendants. Yet, the Lord God established the manner whereby justice, provision and assistance should be made for the poor, inasmuch as even among the Israelites poor people would always exist. The Lord God described to Moses all of the blessings and curses that could occur, and Moses proclaimed the words of the Lord God to the Israelites.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Leviticus 25:25-26:46, Numbers 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 7:1-26, 15:1-23, 24:10-22, 27:1-28:68, 30:1-31:30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 6:1-81, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26

Reference Information:
Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread-Exodus 12:1-20

spikenard = nardou/nardos = nard/nerd = part of an aromatic plant

Reference Scripture:
For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.-Deuteronomy 15:11

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