A Sweet Scent
Sweet and Viola continue: “And when He fell, causing more unnamed injuries; when He looked around for His most intimate friends, His disciples, and saw none but the four women and John at a distance; and when the agony was almost too much to bear – He smelled the perfume.
"He remembered the 12-year-old daughter of Jairus, whom everyone thought was dead but whom God healed when He spoke these words: ‘Get up, My child.’ And He remembered the Syro-Phoenician woman and her daughter and the Galilean official and his son.” Jesus kept on. And when they stripped Him naked and nailed Him to the crosspiece He had carried; when they took those six-inch spikes and lacerated the median nerves in His hands and feet; and when they lifted Him up on that cross, above the sinking garbage heap called Golgotha – Jesus smelled the perfume.
