Mark 14:1-11

The Plot to Kill Jesus

1 ¹It was now two days before ²the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes ³were seeking how to arrest him by stealth and kill him,

2 for they said, “Not during the feast, ⁴lest there be an uproar from the people. ”

Jesus Anointed at Bethany

3 ⁵And while he was at ⁶Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, ^[a] as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head.

4 There were some who said to themselves indignantly, “Why was the ointment wasted like that?

5 For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii^[b] and ⁷given to the poor. ” And they ⁸scolded her.

6 But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.

7 For ⁹you always have the poor with you, and whenever ¹⁰you want, you can do good for them. But ¹¹you will not always have me.

8 ¹²She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand ¹³for burial.

9 And truly, I say to you, wherever ¹⁴the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told ¹⁵in memory of her. ”

Judas to Betray Jesus

10 ¹⁶Then ¹⁷Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, ¹⁸went to the chief priests in order to betray him to them.

11 And when they heard it, they were glad and promised to give him money. And he sought an opportunity to ¹⁹betray him.

Cross References

• 1. 14:1 For ver. 1, 2, see Matt. 26:2-5; Luke 22:1, 2
• 2. 14:1 See John 6:4
• 3. 14:1 John 11:53; See Matt. 21:46
• 4. 14:2 Matt. 27:24
• 5. 14:3 For ver. 3-9, see Matt. 26:6-13; John 12:1-8; [Luke 7:37-39]
• 6. 14:3 Matt. 21:17; John 11:18
• 7. 14:5 [John 13:29]
• 8. 14:5 John 11:33, 38 (Gk.)
• 9. 14:7 Deut. 15:11
• 10. 14:7 [2 Cor. 9:7]
• 11. 14:7 ch. 2:20; See John 7:33
• 12. 14:8 [ch. 12:43; Luke 21:3; 2 Cor. 8:12]
• 13. 14:8 John 19:40
• 14. 14:9 [Matt. 24:14]
• 15. 14:9 Acts 10:4
• 16. 14:10 For ver. 10, 11, see Matt. 26:14-16; Luke 22:3-6; [John 13:2, 27, 30]
• 17. 14:10 ch. 3:19; Matt. 27:3; Acts 1:16; [John 6:71; 12:4]
• 18. 14:10 ch. 3:19; Matt. 27:3; Acts 1:16; [John 6:71; 12:4]
• 19. 14:11 See Matt. 20:18, 19

Footnotes

• [a] 14:3 'Leprosy' was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13
• [b] 14:5 A 'denarius' was a day’s wage for a laborer