Mark 14:1-20 ▼

1 And the Passover and the Unleavened [Bread] were after two days, and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how, by guile, having taken hold of Him, they might kill Him;

2 and they said, “Not in the celebration, lest there will be a tumult of the people.”

3 And He, being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, at His reclining, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment, of spikenard, very precious, and having broken the alabaster box, poured [it] on His head;

4 and there were certain much displeased within themselves, and saying, “For what has this waste of the ointment been made?

5 For this could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor”; and they were murmuring at her.

6 And Jesus said, “Leave her alone; why are you giving her trouble? She worked a good work on Me;

7 for you always have the poor with you, and whenever you may will you are able to do them good, but you do not always have Me;

8 she did what she could, she anticipated to anoint My body for the embalming.

9 Truly I say to you, wherever this good news may be proclaimed in the whole world, what this woman did will also be spoken of—for a memorial of her.”

10 And Judas the Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went away to the chief priests that he might deliver Him up to them,

11 and having heard, they were glad, and promised to give him money, and he was seeking how, conveniently, he might deliver Him up.

12 And the first day of the Unleavened [Bread], when they were killing the Passover, His disciples say to Him, “Where will You, [that] having gone, we may prepare, that You may eat the Passover?”

13 And He sends forth two of His disciples and says to them, “Go away into the city, and there a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you, follow him;

14 and wherever he may go in, say to the master of the house: The Teacher says, Where is the guest-chamber, where the Passover, with My disciples, I may eat?

15 And he will show you a large upper room, furnished, prepared—make ready for us there.”

16 And His disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as He said to them, and they made ready the Passover.

17 And evening having come, He comes with the Twelve,

18 and as they are reclining, and eating, Jesus said, “Truly I say to you that one of you who is eating with Me will deliver Me up.”

19 And they began to be sorrowful, and to say to Him one by one, “Is it I?” And another, “Is it I?”

20 And He answering said to them, “One of the Twelve who is dipping with Me in the dish;