Mar 18, 2019
Mark 14:1-11
It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened
Bread. And the chief priests and
the scribes were seeking how to arrest Him by stealth and kill Him,
2 for they said, “Not during the
feast, lest there be an uproar from the people.” 3 And
while He was at Bethany in the house of Simon the
leper, as He was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster
flask of ointment of pure nard, very
costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over His head.
4 There were some who said to themselves
indignantly, “Why was the ointment wasted like that? 5
For this ointment could have been sold for
more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor.” And they
scolded her. 6 But Jesus said, “Leave
her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing
to Me. 7 For you always have the
poor with you, and whenever you want, you can do good for them. But
you will not always have
Me. 8 She has done what she could; she has anointed My
body beforehand for burial. 9 And truly, I say
to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what
she has done will be told in memory
of her.” 10 Then Judas Iscariot, who was one of the
twelve, went to the chief priests in order to betray
Him to them. 11 And when they heard it, they were glad
and promised to give him money. And he
sought an opportunity to betray Him.