Getty Music: HYMNS & DEVOTIONS FOR HOLY WEEK

It is Wednesday of Holy Week. As the drama intensifies, we discover two different ways to respond to Jesus. First is the path of hard-hearted rejection: “It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth and kill him” (Mark 14:1). These experts in the law and the prophets should have welcomed the Messiah with open arms. But they refuse.

In the very next scene in Mark’s gospel, though, we see the second path, a response of unbounded worship and adoration: “And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head” (Mark 14:3). Why such extravagance? Because she understood Jesus’ true identity. She hailed him as the king of heaven, the one who deserves the awe of angels and symphonies of nations. This Passion Week, and all year round, we are invited to follow her example of pouring out a sweet aroma of praise to the “lamb of our salvation, O for sinners slain.”

As we continue to walk through the final days of Jesus’ earthly ministry, join us in singing “All Hail the King of Heaven <https://gettymusic.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa4cd9a5b4688d5ec76f457cb&id=65630a0f44&e=843a733a52> ,” a new hymn by Matt Boswell and Matt Papa from the Sing! In Christ Alone album <https://gettymusic.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=aa4cd9a5b4688d5ec76f457cb&id=8b4923003e&e=843a733a52> .

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