Mark 14:1-11

Death Plot and Anointing

1 ¹Now ²the Passover and Unleavened Bread were two days away; and the chief priests and the scribes ³were seeking how to seize Him by stealth and kill Him;

2 for they were saying, "Not during the festival, otherwise there might be a riot of the people."

3 ⁴While He was in ⁵Bethany at the home of Simon the leper, and reclining at the table, there came a woman with an alabaster vial of very ⁶costly perfume of pure nard; and she broke the vial and poured it over His head.

4 But some were indignantly remarking to one another, "Why * has this perfume been wasted?

5 "For this perfume might have been sold for over three hundred denarii, and the money given to the poor." And they were scolding her.

6 But Jesus said, "Let her alone; why do you bother * her? She has done a good deed to Me.

7 "For you always have ⁷the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them; but you do not always have Me.

8 "She has done what she could; ⁸she has anointed My body beforehand for the burial.

9 "Truly I say to you, ⁹wherever * the gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of in memory of her."

10 ¹⁰Then Judas Iscariot, ¹¹who was one of the twelve, went off to the chief priests in order to betray Him to them.

11 They were glad when they heard this, and promised to give him money. And he began seeking how to betray Him at an opportune time.

Cross References

• 1. Mark 14:1, 2: {Matthew 26:2-5; Luke 22:1, 2}
• 2. Exodus 12:1-27; Mark 14:12; John 11:55; John 13:1
• 3. Matthew 12:14
• 4. Mark 14:3-9: {Matthew 26:6-13;} Luke 7:37-39; John 12:1-8
• 5. Matthew 21:17
• 6. Matthew 26:6; John 12:3
• 7. Deuteronomy 15:11; Matthew 26:11; John 12:8
• 8. John 19:40
• 9. Matthew 26:13
• 10. Mark 14:10, 11: {Matthew 26:14-16; Luke 22:3-6}
• 11. John 6:71

Footnotes

• [a] An aromatic oil extracted from an East Indian plant
• [b] The denarius was equivalent to a day's wages
• [c] Or "hand Him over"