This past Mother’s Day, Scott Amos, a 40-year-old husband and father of 2, was visiting his mother in California at his childhood home. While he was there, his mom asked him to go up into the attic to get a few boxes of his things that had long been packed up and put away.As he sorted through the dusty boxes, he came across and old JCPenney bag. Inside the bag he found an unopened Nintendo Game, complete with JCPenney receipt for $38.45. It was a copy of the Greek Mythological classic- “Kid Icarus”.Coincidentally, the date on the receipt was exactly 31 years ago today-  December 8th, 1988. Apparently, Scott’s Mom had hidden one of his 1988 Christmas presents a bit too well.Scott tossed the game back in the box and headed home to Reno, Nevada with his family. Thinking that he might be able to sell the game online for couple of hundred bucks to a collector, he pulled it out and set it on the kitchen counter...until he had a chance to check its value.Later that day at work, he emailed a couple of experts, one of them replied immediately, “You have an Easter Egg on your hands.” In other words, a very rare find that was going to be worth more than $200. A lot more.He immediately called his wife and told her to get the game out of the reach of his 2 small children and into a safe location. Turns out there are fewer than 10 sealed copies of this game in the world. And, since the game had a receipt that showed it hadn’t changed hands, it boosted the value even more. Scott put the game up for auction, and then invited his family and friends over to his house for a viewing party on the night of the auction, where they could watch online. The game sold for $9,000.Scott split the money with his older sister and they took their families to Disney world. So, parents, if you hide a Christmas gift in the attic this season and forget about it, you just might accidentally give your children a much bigger gift 30 years later.What’s funny is, I bet back in 1988, Scott’s Mom probably got that gift for him because he asked for it. And I bet, on Christmas morning, when he opened his gifts and it wasn’t there…like all kids…he was a little bit disappointed. You know, if Scott’s Mom suddenly remembered later that evening…or the next day…or sometime in the middle of January… “Wait a second, that game! I hid that game away and forgot to give it to you…” I bet Scott would have jumped at the chance to just crack it open right then and play it.Because he or his Mom, or his sister, simply could not have known or predicted that what they thought was worth $38.45, could one day send the whole family to Disney World.For the last couple of chapters in John’s Gospel, Jesus has been showing up at these sacred Jewish religious institutions and doing something that confuses people. He went into the temple and turned over tables and then said, “Tear down the temple and I’ll raise it up in 3 days”He talked to a Jewish Rabbi who thought Israel just needed a new teacher, and Jesus said he needed a new birth. Today, we come to another person who is going to appeal to religious institutional beliefs…and Jesus is going to say something confusing...again. But this person is different than those first two groups made up of society’s elites. The person Jesus will talk to in this story is on the other end of the spectrum. She embodies everything that John’s culture despised, ignored, and de-valued. Yet, Jesus knows she is worth much more than the receipt in the bag says. And this woman is going to figure out…that she’s just found an unopened copy of “Kid Icarus” in the attic…and she’s going to Disney World. Support the show