Mark 14:1-21 ▼

1 Now the feast of the passover and unleavened bread was within two days: and the chief priests and the scribes were contriving how they might seize Him by treachery and put Him to death.

2 But they said, Not on the feast- day, least there be a tumult of the people.

3 And when He was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as He was at table, there came a woman with an alabaster- box of ointment of spikenard, very valuable; and she brake the box and poured it on his head.

4 And there were some provoked at it and said, Why was this waste made of the ointment?

5 For it might have been sold for above three hundred pence, and given to the poor. And they inveighed against her.

6 But Jesus said, Let her alone, why do ye give her uneasiness?

7 She has done a kind office to me. For ye have the poor always with you, and may do them good, whenever ye will; but me ye have not always.

8 She has done what she could: she has embalmed my body beforehand against the burial.

9 Verily I tell you, wheresoever this gospel is preached, through all the world, what she hath done shall also be told for a memorial of her.

10 And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests, in order to betray Him unto them.

11 And they were glad, when they heard it, and engaged to give him money. And he sought to betray Him at a proper season.

12 And on the first day of the feast of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the paschal lamb, his disciples said to Him, Where wouldst thou have us go and make preparation for thee to eat of the paschal lamb?

13 And He sendeth two of his disciples, and saith unto them, Go into the city, and there will meet you a man carrying a pitcher of water:

14 follow him, and where he goes in, say to the man of the house, The master inquireth, Where is the room, in which I may eat the passover with my disciples?

15 And he will shew you a large upper room ready prepared, there make preparation for us.

16 And his disciples went out, and came into the city, and found every thing as He told them; and so prepared the passover.

17 And in the evening He cometh with the rest of the twelve.

18 And when they were sat down and eating together, Jesus said, Verily I tell you, that one of you will betray me, who is now eating with me.

19 And they were grieved, and said to Him one by one, Is it I?

20 Is it I? And He said unto them, It is one of the twelve, that is now dipping with me in the dish.

21 The Son of man is going indeed as it is written concerning Him; but wo to that man by whom He is betrayed; it had been good for him, if that man had never been born.