Costly: Mary of Bethany Anoints Jesus

A Play for Holy Week

This is a first person monologue from Mary of Bethany. She talks about her family’s experience knowing Jesus and what moved her to anoint Jesus. It is based on John 12:1-11


A service from Westminster Presbyterian Church in Tiburon, California where Barbara Kessell engages this monologue for her sermon from April 3, 2022

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Image credit: “Sinful woman washes Jesus’ feet” by Freda Baggins, 2020.

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