«It may not sound controversial, but there was much discussion,» says Kaywin Feldman, director of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, who had been
anointed at the meeting's end as president for the next year.
The Fourth Gospel also tells of
an anointing at Bethany (in 12:1 - 8), with echoes of both of the other stories.
The sexual integrity of women is upheld in the discussions of lust (Mt. 5:27 - 30) and divorce (Mt. 19:3 - 9), and the inclusion of sexually immoral women in the Kingdom is noted for the preaching of both John the Baptist and Jesus (Mt. 21:31 - 32).41» The mention of four women from Old Testament as ancestors of Jesus; the healing of the Cannanite woman's daughter (15:21 - 28); the parable of the ten virgins (25:1 - 13);
the anointing at Bethany (26:6 - 13); and the women at resurrection of Jesus (28:1 - 10) all obviously shows Matthaean interest on women and the concept of «Universalism».42
These passages are all narratives of a synoptic type and include the Miracle at Cana (2:1 - 11), the Cleansing of the Temple (2:14 - 16), the Healing of the Nobleman's Son (4:46 - 53)»
the Anointing at Bethany (12:1 - 8) and the Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem (12:12 - 15); it is at least possible that the evangelist was here using a written source or oral tradition that had become comparatively «fixed» in form.
Not exact matches
Mervyn Kitay has been
anointed as chief executive in waiting
at Crowe Horwath Perth, Western Australia's eight biggest accounting firm, taking over from Geoff Kidd, who has run the partnership for the past 19 years.
For some time now, the New York media world has been waiting breathlessly to see who would be
anointed as the next publisher - in - waiting
at the New York Times.
U.S. News
anoints Cook 13th best for supply chain / logistics, ahead of Harvard Business School
at No. 15.
Money should be spent, if
at all, on the starving poor, rather than on
anointing the feet of Christ or (as the poet said, and Peggy will quote) «touch [ing] the face of God.»
Searching for Sunday has provided ample opportunity for creative collaboration because the sacraments
at the heart of the book — baptism, confession, holy orders, communion, confirmation,
anointing the sick, and marriage — are rich and complex and endlessly inspiring.
Luke adds that he was «filled with the power of the Spirit» when he returned to Galilee, and that when he read from the scroll of Isaiah in the synagogue
at Nazareth he began with the passage that said, «The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has
anointed me to bring good news to the poor» (Luke 4:14 - 18).
Each of the four Gospels tells about the woman who
anoints Jesus while he is
at table, and in each Gospel someone sharply rebukes her for her action.
(Isa 50:4) Hence, when Jesus was handed the scroll of Isaiah just after his baptism, he read from it (
at Isaiah 61:1, 2) that «Jehovah's spirit is upon me, because he
anointed me to declare good news to the poor... to preach Jehovah's acceptable year.»
I learned this not from a class in feminist studies, but from Jesus — who was brought into the world by a woman whose obedience changed everything; who revealed his identity to a scorned woman
at a well; who defended Mary of Bethany as his true disciple, even though women were prohibited from studying under rabbis
at the time; who obeyed his mother; who refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery to death; who looked to women for financial and moral support, even after the male disciples abandoned him; who said of the woman who
anointed his feet with perfume that «wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her»; who bantered with a Syrophoenician woman, talked theology with a Samaritan woman, and healed a bleeding woman; who appeared first before women after his resurrection, despite the fact that their culture deemed them unreliable witnesses; who charged Mary Magdalene with the great responsibility of announcing the start of a new creation, of becoming the Apostle to the Apostles.
Matthew and Mark describe an unnamed woman from Bethany who, while Jesus dined in the home of Simon the Leper just days before his death,
anoints his head with expensive ointment to the chagrin of the disciples
at the table, who grumble that her offering might be better spent on the poor.
At baptism we are publicly proclaimed as daughters and sons of God and
anointed with the Holy Spirit so that we may do the will of God in the world.
And this world is kinda full of the resigned Mud Swallowers and the rebuking Mud Slingers and if you
anoint yourself a fault - finder, you find yourself
at fault in the end.
At baptism, we are
anointed with the Holy Spirit so that we may be soldiers of Christ in the world, so that we may fight the forces of sin and evil.
We will reflect on the woman who
anointed Jesus
at Bethany (Thursday), the suffering of Mary of Nazareth (Friday), the women who waited through a long Sabbath before heading out to the tomb on Sunday morning (Saturday), and the story of Mary Magdalene (Sunday).
the one is the old theocratic messianic title, given to
anointed kings in ancient times; the other is the new apocalyptic title of the heavenly Man, the celestial Anthropos, Urmensch, the Primal Man, who is to appear
at the end of days, raise the dead, and judge the whole world — angels, demons, and men.
Because «they came with their spices prepared» thinking the body was in the tomb still (``... so they might
anoint Him when they would come» Mark 16:1)-- , it was the women's first visit
at the tomb, but they had to discover that the tomb was EMPTY and they could not
anoint the body.
A man is most truly «helped» when women are walking in the fullness of her
anointing and gifts and intelligence and strength, not when she reduces herself out of a misguided attempt
at righteousness.
In John as in Luke the woman
anoints Jesus» feet; in Mark and Matthew she pours the ointment on his head, implying that he was seated
at the table instead of reclining.
Some young people who travelled to see have formed a group and taking their
anointing around the UK, a number of us from our Church are going to see and hear
at a Church not far from this group on Saturday night.
During the meal, «a woman of the city, who was a sinner,... brought an alabaster flask of ointment, and standing behind him
at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head, and kissed his feet, and
anointed them with the ointment.»
In the five thousand one hundred and ninety - ninth year of the creation of the world from the time when God in the beginning created the heavens and the earth; the two thousand nine hundred and fifty - seventh year after the flood; the two thousand and fifteenth year from the birth of Abraham; the one thousand five hundred and tenth year from Moses and the going forth of the people of Israel from Egypt; the one thousand and thirty - second year from David's being
anointed king; in the sixty - fifth week according to the prophecy of Daniel; in the one hundred and ninety - fourth Olympiad; the seven hundred and fifty - second year from the foundation of the city of Rome; the forty - second year of the reign of Octavian Augustus; the whole world being
at peace in the sixth age of the world, Jesus Christ the eternal God and Son of the eternal Father, desiring to sanctify the world by his most merciful coming, being conceived by the Holy Spirit, and nine months having passed since his conception, was born in Bethlehem of Judea of the Virgin Mary, being made flesh.
The masses tend to look
at Jesus, the man, rather than a man with the annointing of Christ... an
anointing available to all.
Mary is
anointing Jesus, and
at first the narrator seems like the teenager in the theater who was providing play - by - play commentary.
At this point, would scripture really use our chosen label «
anointed»?
While «standing behind him
at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head, and kissed his feet, and
anointed them with the ointment» (Luke 7:38).
She remembered the day,
at the house of Simon the Pharisee, she standing behind Jesus, wetting his feet with tears, and wiping them with her hair, kissing his feet and
anointing them with ointment.
We are entitled to infer that this was the moment
at which Jesus accepted his vocation, For him, and not only for those who wrote about him, it was the act of God by which he was «
anointed» for his mission.
On a Sunday morning, I sat in a pew of the church Pastor Charles planted
at Africa New Life, and this
anointed man of God, this refugee who was welcomed Home, he preached it like a man tapping the very centre of Being and what he said has gathered and collected me for weeks:
What this means is that the
anointing with oil of the sick in James 5:14 is is not a religious practice
at all, but is a medical practice.
With this in mind, many have said that the
anointing here in James 5 is therefore symbolic of the Holy Spirit
at work in the individual through the prayer of faith to heal the sick person.
My first wife received
anointing of the sick multiple times due to her chronic pain and health issues and I've received it
at least twice, once before an angiogram and once as a caregiver of Catherine.
And behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat
at the table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil, and stood
at His feet behind Him weeping; and she began to wash His feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head; and she kissed His feet and
anointed them with the fragrant oil.
And the text says she brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil, and stood
at His feet behind Him weeping; and she began to wash His feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head; and she kissed His feet and
anointed them with the fragrant oil.
It arose when a woman «wasted» an alabaster jar of expensive ointment when she
anointed Jesus
at Bethany.
What is hinted
at here as «one like a son of man» becomes considerably more concrete and definite in the Similitudes of Enoch, where a figure appears who is variously called «the Elect One,» or «the
Anointed One,» or «the Son of man.»
Matthew Omits all reference to the
anointing and says the women came «to look
at the grave».
Jesus commended Mary of Bethany (in John 11 - 12) for extravagantly offering perfume valued
at a year's worth of wages to
anoint him for his burial.
A woman
anoints Jesus» feet
at a Pharisee's house; the two debtors.
Father Paul Keller is assistant professor of sacramental theology
at Mt St Mary's of the West Seminary, Cincinnati, and is also the author of 101 Questions & Answers on the Sacraments of Healing: Penance and
Anointing.
At a leper's house in Bethany a woman
anoints Jesus» head; he defends her extravagance.
At Yahweh's behest Samuel
anoints David in a strictly private ceremony: this is Samuel's (and therefore Yahweh's) man for the future (16:1 - 13, B).
The Encyclical Ut unum sint refers to norms of truth developed
at that time when it says that matters of faith «require universal consent, extending from the Bishops to the lay faithful, all of whom have received the
anointing of the Holy Spirit.
Messiah is not a name
at all but a title; it can be translated «
anointed.»
And
at the beginning of his public ministry he says, «The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has
anointed me to preach good news to the poor» (Luke 4:18).
Luk 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon me, because he hath
anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set
at liberty them that are bruised,
Like those well - intentioned activists who met
at a Texas ranch to
anoint one of the presidential candidates in the Republican primaries.