Mark 14:1-11 Preparation for Death

Intro

vs. 1-2 Plot to Kill Jesus

Mark 14:1–2 ESV

It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth and kill him, for they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar from the people.”

vs. 3-9 Jesus Anointed

Mark 14:3–5 ESV

And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head. There were some who said to themselves indignantly, “Why was the ointment wasted like that? For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor.” And they scolded her.

Alabaster Flask

Alabaster was an expensive stone found in Israel

Used to store perfume

Solomon decorated his temple with it

vs. 10-11 Judas Betrays

Mark 14:10–11 ESV

Then Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went to the chief priests in order to betray him to them. And when they heard it, they were glad and promised to give him money. And he sought an opportunity to betray him.