{"id":1210,"date":"2025-04-06T15:24:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T14:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2025-04-06T15:24:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T14:24:45","slug":"jesus-anointed-at-bethany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2025\/04\/06\/jesus-anointed-at-bethany\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Anointed At Bethany"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Given by our reader Julie Taylor on the 5th Sunday of Lent on the 6\/3\/25 entitled \u201cJesus Anointed At Bethany\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/060425\" width=\"500\" height=\"60\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Download Mp3\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/060425\/060425.mp3\">HERE<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/020225\/020225.mp3\">!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sermon starts at 1:28<\/p>\n\n\n\n<font color=\"red\">John 12:1-8\n<br><br>\nJesus Anointed at Bethany<\/font>\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>1<\/b><\/font> Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>2 <\/b><\/font>Here a dinner was given in Jesus\u2019 honor. Martha served, while Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with him. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>3<\/b><\/font> Then Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus\u2019 feet and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>4 <\/b><\/font>But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him, objected, \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>5<\/b><\/font> \u201cWhy wasn\u2019t this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year\u2019s wages.\u201d \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>6<\/b><\/font> He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put into it.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>7<\/b><\/font> \u201cLeave her alone,\u201d Jesus replied. \u201cIt was intended that she should save this perfume for the day of my burial. \n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>8<\/b><\/font> You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me.\u201d\n<br><br>\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Given by our reader Julie Taylor on the 5th Sunday of Lent on the 6\/3\/25 entitled \u201cJesus Anointed At Bethany\u201d Download Mp3\u00a0HERE! Sermon starts at 1:28 John 12:1-8 Jesus Anointed at Bethany &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2025\/04\/06\/jesus-anointed-at-bethany\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1211,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}