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Mark 14 Summary

Betrayal, Last Supper, Arrest, and Trial

While Jesus is in Bethany, a woman anoints his head with precious spikenard; Jesus says this anoints his body for burial and will be remembered. Judas agrees to betray him for money. At Passover, Jesus sends disciples to prepare a meal, then institutes the bread and cup as his body and blood of a new covenant. He predicts his betrayal and Peter's threefold denial. In Gethsemane, Jesus prays in anguish that the cup pass from him while disciples sleep. Judas betrays him with a kiss; soldiers arrest him. The high priest's council condemns him for claiming to be Christ and the Son of the Blessed, spitting and striking him. Peter denies knowing Jesus three times before the cock crows.

Key themes

Anointing for burialBetrayal for moneyCovenant mealPrayer in agonyArrest and false witnessesDenial and conviction

Key verses

Mark 14:3-8

And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made? For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her. And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me. For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always. She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.

Mark 14:22-24

And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body. And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them: and they all drank of it. And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.

Mark 14:32-36

And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane: and he saith to his disciples, Sit ye here, while I shall pray. And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy; And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch. And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him. And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.

Mark 14:61-62

But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed? And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.

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