Holy Wednesday or “Spy” Wednesday

We are celebrating this Holy Week from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday by describing each day of that week as it is depicting in the Bible. Today is Holy Wednesday, sometimes referred to as “Spy Wednesday” by certain denominations. This is the day of two of the Bibles more well known events supposedly occurred. The first is the woman and the alabaster box of precious ointment and the second is when Judas covenanted with the priests to betray Jesus for 30 pieces of silver.

Keep in mind, that we can’t be too dogmatic about the actual days that the events in the Bible occurred. The Jews and Romans had different standards for time/date keeping and the Bible isn’t always in exact chronological order.

The Woman With The Alabaster Box

“Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat. But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste? For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.  When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.  For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always. For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.  Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.” (Matthew 26:6-13)

Spy Wednesday

“Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.” (Matthew 26:14-16)

Bill Hitchcock