Waggoner on the Gospel of John - Ellet J. Waggoner

every day just as perfectly as He possibly could
live on His last day; and therefore there was no
need for Him to make some great change at the
last. Most people would consider it an exhibition of
recklessness or bravado, or else gross insensibility
on the part of a man who should attend a feast six
days from the time when he knew he was to suffer
death; but we know that it was not so with Jesus.
Why should He refuse to act in the last week of His
earthy life just the same as He had always acted?
Why spend time in mournful "preparations for
death?" That always implies that one is conscious
of a misspent life. No preparation is needed for
death; all one has to do is to be prepared to live,
and really live, and then if death does come, he will
be ready for it, no matter how or when it comes.
If we put ourselves in the place of those
disciples, we shall not wonder at their indignation
over the seeming waste of the costly ointment. A
reference to the record in the twenty-sixth chapter
of Matthew shows that the other disciples were
indignant, as well as Judas. How often have we
expressed what we thought was "righteous
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