Mark 14:1–25

The Chief Priests and Scribes Plot to Kill Jesus

14Now after two days it was the Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread, and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how, after^* arresting him by stealth, they could kill him.^{* 2}For they said, “Not at the feast, lest there be an uproar by the people.”

Jesus’ Anointing at Bethany

³And while^* he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as^* he was reclining for a meal, a woman came holding an alabaster flask of very costly perfumed oil of genuine nard. After^* breaking the alabaster flask, she poured it^* out on his head. ⁴But some were expressing indignation to one another:^a “Why has there been this waste of perfumed oil? ⁵For this perfumed oil could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor!” And they began to scold^b her. ⁶But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you cause trouble for her? She has done a good deed to me. ⁷For the poor you always have with you, and you can do good for them whenever you want, but you do not always have me. ⁸She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand^c for burial. ⁹And truly I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.

Judas Arranges to Betray Jesus

¹⁰And Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went to the chief priests in order to betray him to them. ¹¹And when^* they heard this,^* they were delighted, and promised to give him money. And he began seeking^d how he could betray him conveniently.

Jesus’ Final Passover with the Disciples

¹²And on the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, his disciples said to him, “Where do you want us to go and^* prepare, so that you can eat the Passover?” ¹³And he sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the city and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him, ¹⁴and wherever he enters, say to the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says, “Where is my guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?” ’ ¹⁵And he will show you a large upstairs room furnished^e and^* ready, and prepare for us there.” ¹⁶And the disciples went out and came into the city and found everything^* just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.

¹⁷And when it^* was evening, he arrived with the twelve. ¹⁸And while^* they were reclining at table and eating, Jesus said, “Truly I say to you, that one of you who is eating with me will betray me.” ¹⁹They began to be distressed and to say to him one by one, “Surely not I?”^{f 20}But he said to them, “It is one of the twelve—the one who is dipping bread^* into the bowl with me. ²¹For the Son of Man is going just as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for him if that man had not been born.”

The Lord’s Supper

²²And while^* they were eating, he took bread and,^* after^* giving thanks, he broke it^* and gave it^* to them and said, “Take it,^* this is my body.” ²³And after^* taking the cup and^* giving thanks, he gave it^* to them, and they all drank from it. ²⁴And he said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant which is poured out for many. ²⁵Truly I say to you that I will never drink of the fruit of the vine any longer until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”