A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; NEW TESTAMENT STORIES

                                                LOVE POURED OUT PART II

"I am a woman with a past as some would say of me.... This means that no one wants to be kind to me.... However, I learned that Jesus has been invited to the home of the Pharisee Simon for dinner.... I have heard of Jesus... In fact, I have heard many wonderful stories about Him.... Hope has risen up in me that He might be kind to me as well.... So I decided to go and see Him.... But I did not want to go empty handed... That is why I have taken my most precious possession with me... It is a bottle of very expensive perfume.".... Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn that a sinful woman has decided to go to the home of the Pharisee Simon where Jesus has gone for dinner...

          ATTACHMNENT A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; NEW TESTAMENT STORIES

                                           LOVE POURED OUT PART II

You may wonder why this Pharisee Simon aks Jesus to come to his home. Is it perhaps because secretly he wants to become a follower of Jesus? Let's read Luke 7:37 to see what happens during that dinner

When a woman who had lived a sinful lifestyle in that town learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster jar of perfume.

The news that Jesus is eating at the home of the religious leader gets spread throughout the town. One of the inhabitants of the town is a woman who, as Luke, describes it, had lived a sinful lifestyle. This very likely means that she has worked as a prostitute. She too learns that Jesus is at the thome of the religious leader. No doubt, she has heard of Jesus' kindness though she, very likely, has never met Him in person as yet. And she decides her moment to meet Him has come.She takes the bold step of going to the home of the religious leader so she can see Jesus face to face. However, she does not want to go empty-handed so she takes with her an alabaster jar of perfume, which will have been very precious to her.