What a contrast between the woman who anointed Jesus with the very precious ointment, and Judas Iscariot who goes to the chief priests and asks what they will give him to deliver Jesus up to them, and accepts 30 silverlings.

She will be remembered "wherever this good news may be proclaimed in the whole world, what this one did shall also be spoken of - for a memorial of her."

Of Judas he says"Son of Man doth indeed go, as it hath been written concerning him but woe to that aman through whom the Son of Man is delivered up! good it were for him if that man had not been born."

It would seem that the tipping point for Judas is the waste, as he perceives it, of this very expensive ointment, "which could have been sold for much and given to the poor" Matthew does not attribute these words to Judas, but John does in his gospel and add ...