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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.

Mark 14:24 (NIV)

“This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many,” he said to them.

Mark 14:25 (NIV)

“Truly I tell you, I will not drink again from the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”

Mark 14:26 (NIV)

When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

Mark 14:27 (NIV)

“You will all fall away,” Jesus told them, “for it is written: “ ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’

Mark 14:28 (NIV)

But after I have risen, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.”