Sermon Tone Analysis
Overall tone of the sermon
This automated analysis scores the text on the likely presence of emotional, language, and social tones. There are no right or wrong scores; this is just an indication of tones readers or listeners may pick up from the text.
A score of 0.5 or higher indicates the tone is likely present.
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Openness
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Conscientiousness
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Extraversion
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Agreeableness
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*** Photo: Bagpipes, “I’ve been putting in septic tanks for 25 years and I’ve never seen anything like this.”
An unusual scene
Judas gets attention
12.1-2 Setting
12.3 Mary anoints Jesus’s feet
12.4-6 Judas objects
12.7-8 Jesus’s response
Things we learn about Judas
Judas is about to betray Jesus
Judas judges another’s generosity
Judas has a serious character flaw
Lazarus, Mary, and Martha
John’s description
We mustn’t diminish Martha’s work—without people like Martha, not much gets done
We mustn’t diminish Mary’s love—people like Mary show us what devotion to Jesus looks like
“The home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.”
“Leave her alone.
She bought it so that she might keep it for the day of my burial.”
*** Photo: Generosity
Once in a lifetime extravagance
“The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.”
I did it because I love Jesus
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