Mark 14:1-11 ▼

1 And two daies after followed the feast of the Passeouer, and of vnleauened bread: and the hie Priests, & Scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.

2 But they sayde, Not in the feast day, least there be any tumult among the people.

3 And when hee was in Bethania in the house of Simon the leper, as he sate at table, there came a woman hauing a boxe of oyntment of spikenarde, very costly, and shee brake the boxe, and powred it on his head.

4 Therefore some disdained among themselues, and sayde, To what ende is this waste of oyntment?

5 For it might haue bene sold for more then three hundreth pence, and bene giuen vnto the poore, and they murmured against her.

6 But Iesus saide, Let her alone: why trouble yee her? Shee hath wrought a good worke on me.

7 For yee haue the poore with you alwaies, and when yee will yee may doe them good, but me yee shall not haue alwaies.

8 She hath done that she coulde: she came afore hand to anoynt my body to the burying.

9 Verely I say vnto you, wheresoeuer this Gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done, shalbe spoken of in remembrance of her.

10 Then Iudas Iscariot, one of the twelue, went away vnto the hie Priestes, to betray him vnto them.

11 And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised that they woulde giue him monie: therefore he sought howe he might conueniently betraie him.