Mark 14:1-11

The Leaders Plot against Jesus

14¹ It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes made designs how they might take him by deceit and put him to death: ² But they said, Not while the feast is going on, for fear there may be trouble among the people.

Jesus Anointed at Bethany

³ And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, seated at table, there came a woman with a bottle of perfumed oil of great price; and when the bottle was broken she put the perfume on his head. ⁴ But some of them were angry among themselves, saying, For what purpose has this oil been wasted? ⁵ We might have got more than three hundred pence for it, and given the money to the poor. And they said things against her among themselves. ⁶ But Jesus said, Let her be; why are you troubling her? she has done a kind act to me. ⁷ The poor you have ever with you, and whenever you have the desire you may do them good: but me you have not for ever. ⁸ She has done what she was able: she has put oil on my body to make it ready for its last resting-place. ⁹ And truly I say to you, Wherever the good news goes out through all the earth, what this woman has done will be talked of in memory of her.

Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus

¹⁰ And Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, so that he might give him up to them. ¹¹ And hearing what he said, they were glad, and gave him their word to make him a payment of money. And he took thought how he might best give him up to them.