Mark 14:1–25

The Plot to Kill Jesus

^1aNow ^bthe Passover and Unleavened Bread were two days away; and the chief priests and the scribes ^cwere seeking how, after seizing Him in secret, they might kill Him;

²for they were saying, “Not during the festival, lest there be a riot of the people.”

The Costly Perfume

^3aAnd while He was in ^bBethany at the home of Simon the leper, and reclining at the table, there came a woman with an alabaster jar of perfume of very ^ccostly pure ¹nard; and she broke the jar and poured it over His head.

⁴But 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 ¹denarii and given to the poor.” And they were scolding her.

⁶But Jesus said, “Let her alone; why do you bother her? She did a good work to Me.

⁷“For you always have ^athe 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; ^ashe anointed My body beforehand for the burial.

⁹“And truly I say to you, ^awherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what this woman did will also be spoken of in memory of her.”

^10aThen Judas Iscariot, ^bwho was one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests in order to ¹betray Him to them.

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

The Passover Meal

^12aAnd on the first day of ^bUnleavened Bread, when ¹the Passover lamb was being ^csacrificed, His disciples ^*said to Him, “Where do You want us to go and prepare for You to eat the Passover?”

¹³And He ^*sent two of His disciples and ^*said to them, “Go into the city, and a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water; follow him;

¹⁴and wherever he enters, say to the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher says, “Where is My ^aguest room in which I may eat the Passover with My disciples?” ’

¹⁵“And he himself will show you a large upper room furnished and ready; prepare for us there.”

¹⁶And the disciples went out and came to the city, and found it just as He had told them; and they prepared the Passover.

^17aAnd when it was evening He ^*came with the twelve.

¹⁸And as they were reclining at the table and eating, Jesus said, “Truly I say to you that one of you will ¹betray Me—the one who is eating with Me.”

¹⁹They began to be grieved and to say to Him one by one, “Surely not I?”

²⁰And He said to them, “It is one of the twelve, the one who dips with Me in the bowl.

²¹“For the Son of Man is to go just as it is written of Him; but woe to that man ¹by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good ²for that man if he had not been born.”

The Lord’s Supper

^22aAnd while they were eating, He took some bread, and ¹after a ^bblessing, He broke it, and gave it to them, and said, “Take it; this is My body.”

²³And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, and they all drank from it.

²⁴And He said to them, “This is My ^ablood of the ^bcovenant, which is poured out for many.

²⁵“Truly I say to you, I will never again drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”