Anointing Jesus with the ointment...
Anointing Jesus with the ointment was an act of extravagant faith. The Swiss psychiatrist, Paul Tournier, gave an illustration of extravagant faith. He said: "Faith is like a trapeze artist who is swinging on one bar. He is going to turn loose and grab another bar; but there's a moment after he has turned loose of the security of the second bar where he is hanging in the air with no net underneath ... The Christian life is like this -- a lot of turning loose and taking hold in the living of life." How often we see people of faith at their best in the act of "turning loose."