Mark 14:1-26

21st Century King James Version

14 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.

² But they said, “Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.”

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 broke the box and poured it on His head.

⁴ And there were some who were indignant within themselves and said, “Why was this ointment wasted?

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.

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 hath come beforehand to anoint My body for burial.

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 as a memorial of her.”

¹⁰ And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests to betray Him unto them.

¹¹ And when they heard it, they were glad and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray Him.

¹² And on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they killed the Passover lamb, His disciples said unto Him, “Where wilt Thou have us go and prepare, that Thou mayest eat the Passover?”

¹³ And He sent forth two of His disciples and said unto them, “Go ye into the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water; follow him.

¹⁴ And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the master of the house, ‘The Master saith, “Where is the guestchamber where I shall eat the Passover with My disciples?”’

¹⁵ And he will show you a large upper room furnished and prepared; there make ready for us.”

¹⁶ And His disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found it as He had said unto them; and they made ready the Passover.

¹⁷ And in the evening He came with the twelve.

¹⁸ And as they sat and ate, Jesus said, “Verily I say unto you, one of you who eateth with Me shall betray Me.”

¹⁹ And they began to be sorrowful and to say unto Him one by one, “Is it I?” And another said, “Is it I?”

²⁰ And He answered and said unto them, “It is one of the twelve that dippeth with Me in the dish.

²¹ The Son of Man indeed goeth, as it is written of Him; but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! Good were it for that man if he had never been born.”

²² And as they ate, Jesus took bread, and blessed and broke it, and gave it to them and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.”

²³ And He took the cup, and when He had given thanks He gave it to them, and they all drank of it.

²⁴ And He said unto them, “This is My blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.

²⁵ Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day that I drink it new in the Kingdom of God.”

²⁶ And when they had sung a hymn, they went out into the Mount of Olives.