Broken, The Woman Who Anointed Jesus's Feet

By Golden Keyes Parsons

Description:

BROKEN
The Woman Who Anointed Jesus’s Feet

Harlot. Tirzah had vowed she would never become what her grandmother and mother had been, but when her mother died and left her alone and unmarried, she succumbed to the despised profession to survive.
The lives of Tirzah and the three most important men in her life—Simon, the Pharisee, Adam, a kind gentleman from the past and Jesus, the Messiah—intersect at the house of Simon during a banquet when Tirzah defies cultural traditions and expresses her gratitude to the Master for freeing her from the devils that haunted her. Her tears overflow and the fragrance of the ointment she pours on the feet of Jesus fill the room touching all who observe in astonishment. Some were repelled; some were moved; some were never the same again because of the courage this sinful woman exhibited in lavishing her love on the Messiah. The biblical recording of a broken life, symbolized in the broken vial, has come down through the ages to become one of the most treasured accounts of Jesus’s compassion toward sinners. Parsons’ fictionalized account of this woman brings into sharpened focus details of what might have been.

Book Takeaway:

The most fragrant worship we can offer to the Lord Jesus is that which comes from brokenness and sacrifice.

Why the author wrote this book:

All four of these unnamed women intrigued me ... nameless, yet stories important enough to be included in the canon. I wanted to explore what might have been.