Betrayal, Denial, and Anointing

"It always happens, when people decide to worship Jesus without inhibition—to pour out their valuables, their stories, their dancing, their music, before him just the way they feel like doing—that others, looking on, find the spectacle embarrassing and distasteful.

"Not everyone is called to pour out expensive ointment over Jesus' head; but if someone is, the rest should respect it.

"The grumbles of the bystanders... sound a lot like the embarrassed rationalizations of people who have their own emotions well covered up and don't like seeing other people's on display..." —N.T. Wright, Mark for Everyone, 190.