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Death Plot and the Anointing in Bethany
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|Marcos 14:1| It was now two days before the Passover and[the festival of] Unleavened Bread, and the chief priests and the scribes were searching for a deceitful way to arrest Jesus and kill Him;
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|Marcos 14:2| but they were saying, "Not during the festival, for the people might riot."
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|Marcos 14:3| While He was in Bethany[as a guest] at the home of1 Simon the leper, and reclining at the table, a2 woman came with an alabaster vial of very costly and precious perfume of pure3 nard; and she broke the vial and poured the perfume over His head.
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|Marcos 14:4| But there were4 some who were indignantly remarking to one another, "Why has this perfume been wasted?
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|Marcos 14:5| For this perfume might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii[a laborer's wages for almost a year] , and the money given to the poor." And they scolded her.
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|Marcos 14:6| But Jesus said,"Let her alone; why are you bothering her and causing trouble? She has done a good and beautiful thing to Me.
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|Marcos 14:7|For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do something good to them; but you will not always have Me.
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|Marcos 14:8|She has done what she could; she has anointed My body beforehand for the burial.
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|Marcos 14:9|I assure you and most solemnly say to you, wherever the good news[regarding salvation] is proclaimed throughout the world, what she has done will be told in memory of her."
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|Marcos 14:10| Then Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve[disciples] , went to the chief priests to betray Jesus to them.
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