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Jesus Anointed at Bethany
Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus
The Last Supper
Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial
Jesus Prays in Gethsemane
Jesus Is Betrayed and Arrested
Jesus before the Council
Peter Denies Jesus -
|Marcos 14:1| It was now two days before Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. The leading priests and the teachers of religious law were still looking for an opportunity to capture Jesus secretly and kill him.
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|Marcos 14:2| “But not during the Passover celebration,” they agreed, “or the people may riot.”
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|Marcos 14:3| Meanwhile, Jesus was in Bethany at the home of Simon, a man who had previously had leprosy. While he was eating, a woman came in with a beautiful alabaster jar of expensive perfume made from essence of nard. She broke open the jar and poured the perfume over his head.
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|Marcos 14:4| Some of those at the table were indignant. “Why waste such expensive perfume?” they asked.
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|Marcos 14:5| “It could have been sold for a year’s wages and the money given to the poor!” So they scolded her harshly.
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|Marcos 14:6| But Jesus replied, “Leave her alone. Why criticize her for doing such a good thing to me?
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|Marcos 14:7| You will always have the poor among you, and you can help them whenever you want to. But you will not always have me.
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|Marcos 14:8| She has done what she could and has anointed my body for burial ahead of time.
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|Marcos 14:9| I tell you the truth, wherever the Good News is preached throughout the world, this woman’s deed will be remembered and discussed.”
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|Marcos 14:10| Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve disciples, went to the leading priests to arrange to betray Jesus to them.
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