Mark 14:1–15

Leaders Plot to Kill Jesus

Matt. 26:1–5; Luke 22:1, 2

14After ^atwo days it was the Passover and ^bthe Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take Him by ¹trickery and put Him to death. ²But they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar of the people.”

Mary Anoints Jesus

Matt. 26:6–13; John 12:2–8

^3cAnd being in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, as He sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster flask of very costly ²oil of spikenard. Then she broke the flask and poured it on His head. ⁴But there were some who were indignant among themselves, and said, “Why was this fragrant oil wasted? ⁵For it might have been sold for more than three hundred ^ddenarii and given to the poor.” And they ^ecriticized ³her sharply.

⁶But Jesus said, “Let her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for Me. ^7fFor you have the poor with you always, and whenever you wish you may do them good; ^gbut Me you do not have always. ⁸She has done what she could. She has come beforehand to anoint My body for burial. ⁹Assuredly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is ^hpreached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her.”

Judas Plans to Betray Jesus

Matt. 26:14; Luke 22:3–6

¹⁰ⁱThen Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Him to them. ¹¹And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. So he sought how he might conveniently betray Him.

The Passover is Prepared

Matt. 26:17–19; Luke 22:7–13

^12jNow on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they ⁴killed the Passover lamb, His disciples said to Him, “Where do You want us to go and prepare, that You may eat the Passover?”

¹³And He sent out 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. ¹⁴Wherever he goes in, say to the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says, “Where is the guest room in which I may eat the Passover with My disciples?” ’ ¹⁵Then he will show you a large upper room, furnished and prepared; there make ready for us.”