Mark 14:1-15 ▼

1 Now after two days was the passover, and the feast of unleavened bread; and the high priests and the scribes were seeking how, taking Him by guile, they might kill Him;

2 for they said, "Not during the feast, lest there should be an uproar of the people."

3 And, while He was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as He was reclining at table , there came a woman having an alabaster cruse of ointment of pure spikenard, very costly; and, having broken the cruse, she was pouring it down on His bead.

4 But there were some who were much displeased among themselves, saying , "To what purpose has this waste of the ointment been made?

5 For this ointment could have been sold for above three hundred denaries, and given to the poor!" And they were murmuring against her.

6 But Jesus said, "Let her alone; why do ye cause her trouble? She wrought a good work on Me;

7 for the poor ye always have with you; and whensoever ye will, ye can do them good; but Me ye have not always.

8 She did what she could: she anointed My body beforehand for the burial.

9 And verily I say to you, wheresoever the Gospel shall be preached in the whole world, that also which this woman did shall be spoken of for a memorial of her."

10 And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went away to the high priests, that he might deliver Him up to them.

11 And they, hearing it , rejoiced, and promised to give him money. And he was seeking how he might conveniently deliver Him up.

12 And, on the first day of the unleavened bread, when they were slaying the passover, His disciples say to Him, "Where dost Thou wish that we, going, prepare, that Thou mayest eat the passover?"

13 And He sendeth two of His disciples, and saith to them, "Go your way into the city; and there will meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water; follow him.

14 And, wheresoever he enters, say ye to the master of the house, 'The Teacher saith, Where is My guest-chamber, where I may eat the passover with My disciples?'

15 And he will show you a large upper room furnished and ready; and there make ready for us."