Mt 25:31-26:13

Meimei slept through the night last night! And she was able to sustain sitting for quite some time.

• vv 25:31-46: The Sheep and the Goats
• Son of Man comes sitting on his throne in heavenly glory;
• separate the people as shepherd separates sheep and goats
• to the sheep on the right:
  
• come, you who are blessed by my Father
• take your inheritance
• when I was (vv35-36):
  
• hungry -> you feed me
• thirsty -> you gave me drink
• a stranger -> you invited me in
• in need of clothes -> you clothed me
• sick -> you look after me
• in prison -> came to visit me
• whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me (v40); and vice versa (v45);
• go to eternal life (v46b)
  
• to the goats to hte left:
• depart from me, you who are cursed,
  
• into the eternal fire
• prepared for the evil and his angels
  
• you didn't perform any of acts as the sheep on the right (vv42-43);
  
• go to eternal punishment (v46a);
• 26:1-5: The Plot Against Jesus
• v2: Passover is 2 days away; passover begins at sundown on Friday, so at this time it should be in Wednesday;
• v2: Jesus knew his time has come;
• v3: meanwhile at the home of Caiaphas the high priest, a meeting was going on among the chief priests and the elders of the people;
• v4: they are plotting a sly way to arrest Jesus and kill him;
• v5: afraid of a riot, they decided not during the Feast (of Unleavened Bread--on Thursday, see v17);
• vv6-13: Jesus Anointed at Bethany (see also Jn 12:1-8):
• v6: the place- in the home of Simon the Leper at Bethany (not Jeruselem); Bethany is where Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead (Jn 12:1);
  
• v7: a woman (Mary the sister of Lazarus, Jn12:3) poured a jar of very expensive perfume on Jesus' head;
• v8: the disciple (Judas, Jn 12:4) said it was a waste and the perfume could have been sold and the money (worth a year's wage, Jn 12:5) can be given to the poor;
• vv10-13: Jesus' reply:
• why bother this woman?
• she's done a beautiful thing to me
• the poor you'll always have, but not me
• she did it to prepare me for burial
• this will be told wherever this gospel is preached, in memory of her