Mark 14:1-35 ▼

1 Now the feast of Passover and of Unleavened Bread was two days away. And the leaders of the priests, and the scribes, were seeking a means by which they might deceitfully seize him and kill him.

2 But they said, “Not on the feast day, lest perhaps there may be a tumult among the people.”

3 And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was reclining to eat, a woman arrived having an alabaster container of ointment, of precious spikenard. And breaking open the alabaster container, she poured it over his head.

4 But there were some who became indignant within themselves and who were saying: “What is the reason for this waste of the ointment?

5 For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and been given to the poor.” And they murmured against her.

6 But Jesus said: “Permit her. What is the reason that you trouble her? She has done a good deed for me.

7 For the poor, you have with you always. And whenever you wish, you are able to do good to them. But you do not have me always.

8 But she has done what she could. She has arrived in advance to anoint my body for burial.

9 Amen I say to you, wherever this Gospel shall be preached throughout the entire world, the things she has done also shall be told, in memory of her.”

10 And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went away, to the leaders of the priests, in order to betray him to them.

11 And they, upon hearing it, were gladdened. And they promised him that they would give him money. And he sought an opportune means by which he might betray him.

12 And on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they immolate the Passover, the disciples said to him, “Where do you want us to go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?”

13 And he sent two of his disciples, and he said to them: “Go into the city. And you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water; follow him.

14 And wherever he will have entered, say to the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher says: Where is my dining room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’

15 And he will show you a large cenacle, fully furnished. And there, you shall prepare it for us.”

16 And his disciples departed and went into the city. And they found it just as he had told them. And they prepared the Passover.

17 Then, when evening came, he arrived with the twelve.

18 And while reclining and eating with them at table, Jesus said, “Amen I say to you, that one of you, who eats with me, will betray me.”

19 But they began to be sorrowful and to say to him, one at a time: “Is it I?”

20 And he said to them: “It is one of the twelve, who dips his hand with me in the dish.

21 And indeed, the Son of man goes, just as it has been written of him. But woe to that man by whom the Son of man will be betrayed. It would be better for that man if he had never been born.”

22 And while eating with them, Jesus took bread. And blessing it, he broke it and gave it to them, and he said: “Take. This is my body.”

23 And having taken the chalice, giving thanks, he gave it to them. And they all drank from it.

24 And he said to them: “This is my blood of the new covenant, which shall be shed for many.

25 Amen I say to you, that I will no longer drink from this fruit of the vine, until that day when I will drink it new in the kingdom of God.”

26 And having sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

27 And Jesus said to them: “You will all fall away from me in this night. For it has been written: ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’

28 But after I have risen again, I will go before you to Galilee.”

29 Then Peter said to him, “Even if all will have fallen away from you, yet I will not.”

30 And Jesus said to him, “Amen I say to you, that this day, in this night, before the rooster has uttered its voice twice, you will deny me three times.”

31 But he spoke further, “Even if I must die along with you, I will not deny you.” And they all spoke similarly also.

32 And they went to a country estate, by the name of Gethsemani. And he said to his disciples, “Sit here, while I pray.”

33 And he took Peter, and James, and John with him. And he began to be afraid and wearied.

34 And he said to them: “My soul is sorrowful, even unto death. Remain here and be vigilant.”

35 And when he had proceeded on a little ways, he fell prostrate on the ground. And he prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass away from him.