I wish more had survived about his aspect of our Lord s support group. I reckon there was a lot more going on than the scant references that survive in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Jesus, t he loveliest person she had ever known, was going to fall into the hands of cruel men and be butchered . This understanding must have been breaking her heart. But she faced it.
Some social commentators claim that women are genuinely the stronger sex.
Mary certainly was. Because he was not in denial, she was able to comfort Jesus as he rested in their house at Bethany. She did not care what the men thought, she did not care whether Martha understood or not, she just did what her intuition told her to do. She knelt at his feet and with the most expensive of oils, she anointed and massaged them, then unbound her hair and wiped his feet with her long dark tresses. Jesus knew himself understood and comforted by a woman who dared to be true to what her heart was telling her.