Today's Bible reading is the 26 chapter of the Book of Matthew. You can read it here at Bible Gateway: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+26&version=NASB

Today's scripture passage includes the account of the woman who came to Jesus with an alabaster vial of costly perfume and poured it on His head as He reclined at a table in the home of Simon the leper. When His disciple indignantly expressed their feelings that such an act was seen by them as a "waste", Jesus responded by saying that "she has done a good deed to Me." It must have been difficult for them to understand His meaning when He went on to say that "she did it to prepare Me for burial". He was very much alive at the time. It had been some time since He had first told His disciples that the Son of man would be delivered into the hands of men. That time was now at hand.

Early on in the chapter we read that the chief priests and elders had gathered together to plot how they might "seize Jesus by stealth and kill Him." The "stealth" of men would have nothing to do with what was about to happen. The swords and clubs that were in the hands of those who had come to arrest Jesus in Gethsemane would have no bearing on the events that would soon follow. This had been the purpose for His coming. It would be the perfect will of God that would take Jesus to Calvary's cross. Praise God!

Greg