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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.
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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.”
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.”
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.”
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?”
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