Simeon the Leper was not the house of the father of Judas Iscariot, who was also name Simon and present according to John Gospel. In fact not all Bible have the name of Judas Father in the Gospel of John. So if you are using something other then KJV it might not be in John 12. The Gospel of John tells us it was Judas Iscariot’ that spoke out against the alabaster jar of perfume being used on Jesus head and feet. Alabaster was expensive perfume, that could have been sold for money and given to the poor. In Mark one does not know who in the crowd spoke, but that the crowd was opposed to the anointing. Yet I am more incline to think that it was not about the costly perfume, but about the fact Jesus was going to die. For the plot begins to thicken in Mark 14. The priest and other religious leaders decide they would take Jesus but not during the passover feast. The plot to kill during the time of the passover lamb was to be killed. Yet they plan a human lamb’s death. Mary Of Bethany anointing Jesus for burial for there be no time to do so upon his death. The preparation being given.

Without the four Gospels the story of the plot might never had been told, yet it only outlined in part in each of the Gospels it is because Roman tried to cover up the event. After all Jesus would rise from dead on the third day after his death. This plot to kill was clearly known to at the very least all the religious leaders. Jesus was kin and part of the priesthood. Simeon was a man of unclean because of the history of his leprosy that had been healed from perhaps. It does not say he was in the home of unclean man. Yet we also know Lazarus was there at the table, who had been raised from the dead. The ability to be raised up after dying was clearly known among these men. Was the perfume a joke, or a reality to those that sat at the table. How could they kill the Messiah if He was able to be brought back? Yet it would of only been a select group that would of known the reality of coming back to life. The priesthood already alerted to the resurrection of Lazarus, now had to worry about the resurrection of Jesus.

Knowing that there were countries around Israel that had sacrificed there children to fire, does not help when I hear how they plotted to killed Jesus especially at the time of the passover. For at the time of the first passover the angel of the Lord killed the first born of Egypt. Jesus was the first born of Mary and also the conception by the Holy Spirit by the hovering and word of God. Though fire and crucifixion is not the same thing, it does not help with the story. For as the plot unfolds, the reality it truly was a plot against my Savior who died and rose again. Yet Jesus was prepared to go to the cross even to being anointed, or chosen for the task, not only the religious leaders but God also. If the plot had not been by the religious leaders then one might of chosen to be Jew instead of a Christian except for the fact of the resurrection.

The women would got to anoint Jesus after his death only to find him gone. No time for anointing, for the tomb was empty. Jesus begin to then appear slowly to his followers. Yet his body preparation for burial happened a week before his death. There is something else to note about the passover feast. There were two feast, one for the crowd that came yearly to Jerusalem, and one for those that had served at the feast. Scholars tend to think it was the second passover at the time of which Jesus would die.

One wants to think there only one culture exist in Jerusalem, but Jerusalem at the time of Christ was under Roman authority. Under the rule of those who did not necessarily believe in Jehovah,. The story plot is important to tell because it brings out the reality of what was known to Jesus and his disciples. Yet it was the prophesies of both Isaiah and Jeremiah that speaks clearly not only the birth but death of Jesus. For is said the Messiah would go like a sheep to the slaughter. Speaking of Jesus innocents before his death. The prophesy probably was not even being talked about by the Religious leaders. No one had believed John the Baptist was the forerunner, yet some had questioned it. The prophecy untold and unwoven before the people, who did not perceive the reality of what was coming. The anointing alone being a symbol of being chosen for a task by God.

Dear Heavenly Father thank for the knowledge through each of Gospels of the events that formed around the anointing as well as the prophesy fulfilled in each. In Jesus precious name, Amen.