The Good News According to Mark, Chapter 14
{14:1} It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the
unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how
they might seize him by deception, and kill him. {14:2} For they said,
"Not during the feast, because there might be a riot of the people."
{14:3} While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as
he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment
of pure nard--very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his
head. {14:4} But there were some who were indignant among themselves,
saying, "Why has this ointment been wasted? {14:5} For this might have
been sold for more than [1>]three hundred denarii,[<1] and given to
the poor." They grumbled against her.
{14:6} But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She
has done a good work for me. {14:7} For you always have the poor with
you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not
always have me. {14:8} She has done what she could. She has anointed
my body beforehand for the burying. {14:9} Most certainly I tell you,
wherever this Good News may be preached throughout the whole world,
that which this woman has done will also be spoken of for a memorial
of her."
{14:10} Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to the
chief priests, that he might deliver him to them. {14:11} They, when
they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. He sought
how he might conveniently deliver him. {14:12} On the first day of
unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the Passover, his disciples
asked him, "Where do you want us to go and make ready that you may eat
the Passover?"
{14:13} He sent two of his disciples, and said to them, "Go into the
city, and there you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water.
Follow him, {14:14} and wherever he enters in, tell the master of the
house, 'The Teacher says, "Where is the guest room, where I may eat
the Passover with my disciples?"' {14:15} He will himself show you a
large upper room furnished and ready. Make ready for us there."
{14:16} His disciples went out, and came into the city, and found
things as he had said to them, and they prepared the Passover.
{14:17} When it was evening he came with the twelve. {14:18} As they
sat and were eating, Jesus said, "Most certainly I tell you, one of
you will betray me--he who eats with me."
{14:19} They began to be sorrowful, and to ask him one by one,
"Surely not I?" And another said, "Surely not I?"
{14:20} He answered them, "It is one of the twelve, he who dips with
me in the dish. {14:21} For the Son of Man goes, even as it is written
about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It
would be better for that man if he had not been born."
{14:22} As they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had
blessed, he broke it, and gave to them, and said, "Take, eat. This is
my body."
{14:23} He took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave to
them. They all drank of it. {14:24} He said to them, "This is my blood
of the new covenant, which is poured out for many. {14:25} Most
certainly I tell you, I will no more drink of the fruit of the vine,
until that day when I drink it anew in the Kingdom of God." {14:26}
When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
{14:27} Jesus said to them, "All of you will be made to stumble
because of me tonight, for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd,
and the sheep will be scattered.'[2] {14:28} However, after I am
raised up, I will go before you into Galilee."
{14:29} But Peter said to him, "Although all will be offended, yet I
will not."
{14:30} Jesus said to him, "Most certainly I tell you, that you
today, even this night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny
me three times."
{14:31} But he spoke all the more, "If I must die with you, I will
not deny you." They all said the same thing.
{14:32} They came to a place which was named Gethsemane. He said to
his disciples, "Sit here, while I pray." {14:33} He took with him
Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and
distressed. {14:34} He said to them, "My soul is exceedingly
sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch."
{14:35} He went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed
that, if it were possible, the hour might pass away from him. {14:36}
He said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Please remove
this cup from me. However, not what I desire, but what you desire."
{14:37} He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "Simon,
are you sleeping? Couldn't you watch one hour? {14:38} Watch and pray,
that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing,
but the flesh is weak."
{14:39} Again he went away, and prayed, saying the same words.
{14:40} Again he returned, and found them sleeping, for their eyes
were very heavy, and they didn't know what to answer him. {14:41} He
came the third time, and said to them, "Sleep on now, and take your
rest. It is enough. The hour has come. Behold, the Son of Man is
betrayed into the hands of sinners. {14:42} Arise, let us be going.
Behold, he who betrays me is at hand."
{14:43} Immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas, one of the
twelve, came--and with him a multitude with swords and clubs, from the
chief priests, the scribes, and the elders. {14:44} Now he who
betrayed him had given them a sign, saying, "Whoever I will kiss, that
is he. Seize him, and lead him away safely." {14:45} When he had come,
immediately he came to him, and said, "Rabbi! Rabbi!" and kissed him.
{14:46} They laid their hands on him, and seized him. {14:47} But a
certain one of those who stood by drew his sword, and struck the
servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.
{14:48} Jesus answered them, "Have you come out, as against a
robber, with swords and clubs to seize me? {14:49} I was daily with
you in the temple teaching, and you didn't arrest me. But this is so
that the Scriptures might be fulfilled."
{14:50} They all left him, and fled. {14:51} A certain young man
followed him, having a linen cloth thrown around himself, over his
naked body. The young men grabbed him, {14:52} but he left the linen
cloth, and fled from them naked. {14:53} They led Jesus away to the
high priest. All the chief priests, the elders, and the scribes came
together with him.
{14:54} Peter had followed him from a distance, until he came into
the court of the high priest. He was sitting with the officers, and
warming himself in the light of the fire. {14:55} Now the chief
priests and the whole council sought witnesses against Jesus to put
him to death, and found none. {14:56} For many gave false testimony
against him, and their testimony didn't agree with each other. {14:57}
Some stood up, and gave false testimony against him, saying, {14:58}
"We heard him say, 'I will destroy this temple that is made with
hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.'"
{14:59} Even so, their testimony did not agree.
{14:60} The high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus,
"Have you no answer? What is it which these testify against you?"
{14:61} But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing. Again the high
priest asked him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?"
{14:62} Jesus said, "I am. You will see the Son of Man sitting at
the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of the sky."
{14:63} The high priest tore his clothes, and said, "What further
need have we of witnesses? {14:64} You have heard the blasphemy! What
do you think?" They all condemned him to be worthy of death. {14:65}
Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with
fists, and to tell him, "Prophesy!" The officers struck him with the
palms of their hands.
{14:66} As Peter was in the courtyard below, one of the maids of the
high priest came, {14:67} and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked
at him, and said, "You were also with the Nazarene, Jesus!"
{14:68} But he denied it, saying, "I neither know, nor understand
what you are saying." He went out on the porch, and the rooster crowed.
{14:69} The maid saw him, and began again to tell those who stood
by, "This is one of them." {14:70} But he again denied it. After a
little while again those who stood by said to Peter, "You truly are
one of them, for you are a Galilean, and your speech shows it."
{14:71} But he began to curse, and to swear, "I don't know this man of
whom you speak!" {14:72} The rooster crowed the second time. Peter
remembered the word, how that Jesus said to him, "Before the rooster
crows twice, you will deny me three times." When he thought about
that, he wept.
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Footnotes:
[1] {14:5} 300 denarii was about a years wages for an agricultural
laborer.
[2] {14:27} Zechariah 13:7
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