Jesus Children's Sunday School Lessons -
Mary Pours Perfume on Jesus
Use this children’s Sunday School lesson to teach kids about giving Jesus our best.
Needed: Bibles, drawing paper, crayons or colored pencils, soft balls or paper wads
Intro Game: What to Do with It?
Divide students into groups of two or three. Tell each group to pretend that you gave them $20. Their job is to come up with the best way to use that money for Jesus. Tell them not to simply say that they would give it to the church. If they do, they have to say what they would want the church to do with that money.
Each group then presents their answer to the class. After each group has given their answer, have the whole class vote on the best idea. Students cannot vote for their own group’s answer.
Do the same thing for $1,000 and then, for $1 million.
Lesson
Read John 12:1-3.
Why did Mary use such an expensive perfume on Jesus and wipe His feet with her hair? (She is worshiping Jesus. Jesus deserves the best that we can give Him.)
What are some things that you can do to worship Jesus and give Him your best? (Ideas could include being good because Jesus wants us to be good, giving Jesus our offerings, using our talents for God, giving God the glory for our talents, spending time with Him by reading our Bibles, praying, going to church, etc.)
(Read John 12:4-6.)
Why did Judas not want Mary to use the perfume on Jesus? (He was greedy and thought that he could have sold the perfume and gotten a lot of money for it. He was more worried about what he could get than about worshiping Jesus.)
(Read John 12:7-11.)
Why did the priests want to kill Jesus?
Jesus was getting too powerful, and the priests were getting jealous of Him. People were listening to Jesus instead of to the priests, especially after Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, and the priests didn’t like that. The priests wanted people to only listen to them.
Did Jesus know He was going to die? (Yes. He told the disciples that Mary had put the perfume on Him to get His body ready to be buried.)
Jesus knew He was going to die because that’s what He came to do. He came to die on the cross to take the punishment for our sin so that we could be forgiven.
Craft: Giving Jesus Our Best
Give students drawing supplies and have them draw a picture of themselves doing something to give Jesus their best. When they’re finished, have them tell the class about their picture.Game: Taking Our Place
Play a game of dodgeball with soft play balls or paper wads. When one team starts to accumulate a lot of players in the “Out” zone, run in and say that you’ll take their place being out. They can get back in the game. Do the same for the other team. Keep doing it as long as time allows. Then, explain that just like you were taking the place of people who were out, Jesus took our place on the cross. He took our punishment so that we could be forgiven for our sins.
An alternative is a game of two-team tag. Take the place of students who are tagged and out of the game.
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