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Mark 13:33 (NIV)

Be on guard! Be alert ! You do not know when that time will come.

Mark 13:34 (NIV)

It’s like a man going away: He leaves his house and puts his servants in charge, each with their assigned task, and tells the one at the door to keep watch.

Mark 13:35 (NIV)

“Therefore keep watch because you do not know when the owner of the house will come back—whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or at dawn.

Mark 13:36 (NIV)

If he comes suddenly, do not let him find you sleeping.

Mark 13:37 (NIV)

What I say to you, I say to everyone: ‘Watch!’ ”

Mark 14:1 (NIV)

Now the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread were only two days away, and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were scheming to arrest Jesus secretly and kill him.

Mark 14:2 (NIV)

“But not during the festival,” they said, “or the people may riot.”

While he was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head.

Mark 14:4 (NIV)

Some of those present were saying indignantly to one another, “Why this waste of perfume?

Mark 14:5 (NIV)

It could have been sold for more than a year’s wages and the money given to the poor.” And they rebuked her harshly.

Mark 14:6 (NIV)

“Leave her alone,” said Jesus. “Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.

Mark 14:7 (NIV)

The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me.

Mark 14:8 (NIV)

She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial.

Mark 14:12 (NIV)

On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, when it was customary to sacrifice the Passover lamb, Jesus’ disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover?”

Mark 14:13 (NIV)

So he sent two of his disciples, telling them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him.

Mark 14:14 (NIV)

Say to the owner of the house he enters, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’

Mark 14:15 (NIV)

He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there.”

Mark 14:16 (NIV)

The disciples left, went into the city and found things just as Jesus had told them. So they prepared the Passover.

Mark 14:17 (NIV)

When evening came, Jesus arrived with the Twelve.

Mark 14:18 (NIV)

While they were reclining at the table eating, he said, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me—one who is eating with me.”

Mark 14:19 (NIV)

They were saddened, and one by one they said to him, “Surely you don’t mean me?”

Mark 14:20 (NIV)

“It is one of the Twelve,” he replied, “one who dips bread into the bowl with me.

Mark 14:21 (NIV)

The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him. But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born.”

Mark 14:22 (NIV)

While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take it; this is my body.”

Mark 14:23 (NIV)

Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank from it.