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Mark 14:1-11
Theme: The Servant’s Last Days
Key verse: v.3
72 verses; 1595 words
Grade level: 3.6
1.
The Change for Christ.
vs.1-9
2. The Condemnation of Christ.
vs.10-72
An actor or actress must:
Know their lines.
Know the other cast members.
Know when to enter and exit.
To give off the quality of a real life situation.
Three SCENES we view as we inch toward the cross.
I.
The Evil Council.
Vs.1-2
A council of the chief priests and scribes.
What led them.
V.1
1 After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
“craft” -
(g1388) bait, fraud, guile, deceit
(1828) skill to affect purposes by deceit.
“the passover“ - Had they forgot not just what they were celebrating but Whom?
They were ready to violate God’s command to not kill.
What motivated them.
V.2
2 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.
“the people” -
Three SCENES we view as we inch toward the cross.
I.
The Evil Council.
Vs.1-2
II.
The Excellent Choice.
Vs.3-9
A woman with the alabaster box.
What she gave.
v.3
3 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.
The priest was anointed in the OT.
The prophet was anointed In the OT.
The king was anointed in the OT.
What she got.
V.4
4 And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
“waste” - 684. ἀπώλεια (apṓleia)
Matthew 7:13 “destruction“
Matthew 26:8 ”waste”
Here in Mark 14:4 ”waste”
John 17:12 ”son of perdition“
Acts 8:20 ”thy money perish”
Acts 25:16 ”die”
Romans 9:22 “destruction“
Philippians 1:28 ”perdition“
Philippians 3:19 ”destruction“
2 Thessalonians 2:3 ”son of perdition”
1 Timothy 6:9 “perdition“
Hebrews 10:39 ”perdition“
2 Peter 2:1 ”damnable“; “destruction“
2 Peter 2:2 ”pernicious“
2 Peter 2:3 ”damnable”
2 Peter 3:7 ”perdition“
2 Peter 3:16 ”destruction“
Revelation 17:8 ”perdition“
Revelation 17:11”perdition“
What it cost.
V.5
5 For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor.
And they murmured against her.
The cost of a funeral.
Luke 9:23 ”deny himself”
1 Corinthians 11:1 ”I die daily”
Galatians 2:20 ”crucified with Christ”
Who defended her? Vs.6-9
6 And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
7 For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
8 She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
9 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.
Three SCENES we view as we inch toward the cross.
I.
The Evil Council.
Vs.1-2
II.
The Excellent Choice.
Vs.3-9
III.
The Enemy Commits.
Vs.10-11
Judas agrees to betray Christ to the chief priests.
It was a choice.
V.10
10 And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests, to betray him unto them.
He was not a victim.
He was the villain.
It was convenient.
V.11
11 And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money.
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