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Four of the eight founder members of the Szentendre artists' colony, József Bánáti Sverák, Henrik Heintz, Béla Onódi and Lajos Pándy offered the local priest to paint the sanctuary of castle hill church (parish church of Saint John the Baptist). They chose the subject of the pictures then they consulted with the parish priest. The sanctuary was painted in 1932-33. Pándy's fresco is on the northern wall of the sanctuary. The aquarelle sketch was made to the secco. There is a table in the middle with a company around who are watching Jesus. In the foreground, there is Maria Magdalena kneeling in front of Jesus and spreading his feet with scented oil. All the pictures in the sanctuary have a common characteristic feature: the biblical scenes appear in an architectural environment, in an interior open from the back. In the background of each picture, a well-known building of the townscape of Szentendre appears. In Pándy's work the characteristic façade of the Town Hall and the tower of the castle hill church as well as that of the Serbian Belgrade church can be seen.
The picture is a part of the biblical scenes of the sanctuary forming a short cycle that presents some important stages of Jesus life.
The compositions are well-constructed, the colours are light, and the perspective applied is central. These devices also appear in the so-called Novecento paintings - reflecting the influence of contemporary Italian art - of the four artists who painted the sanctuary.
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