Mark 14:1,2
THE ANOINTING OF JESUS. The council of the chief priests and scribes:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ANOINTING OF JESUS. The council of the chief priests and scribes:... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THEY SAID, NOT ON THE FEAST-DAY, LEST THERE BE AN UPROAR OF THE PEOPLE. The Jewish authorities had not given up one bit of their enmity and rage against the Prophet of Galilee. There had been daily sessions in the Hall of Polished Stones and undoubtedly many private consultations of the manner i... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
The anointing at Bethany:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THERE WERE SOME THAT HAD INDIGNATION WITHIN THEMSELVES AND SAID, WHY WAS THIS WASTE OF THE OINTMENT MADE?... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN SOLD FOR MORE THAN THREE HUNDRED PENCE AND HAVE BEEN GIVEN TO THE POOR. AND THEY MURMURED AGAINST HER. Mark here inserts a story of the Saturday before, when Jesus first came to Bethany from Jericho, unless we want to assume that two anointings took place. This Simon the leper... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS SAID, LET HER ALONE; WHY TROUBLE YE HER? SHE HATH WROUGHT A GOOD WORK ON ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
Jesus defends the woman:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR YE HAVE THE POOR WITH YOU ALWAYS, AND WHENSOEVER YE WILL, YE MAY DO THEM GOOD; BUT ME YE HAVE NOT ALWAYS.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHE HATH DONE WHAT SHE COULD; SHE IS COME AFOREHAND TO ANOINT MY BODY TO THE BURYING.... [ Continue Reading ]
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. With all this denunciation being heaped upon her, the woman stood patiently waiting to hear the verdict of Christ. And she was not disap... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JUDAS ISCARIOT, ONE OF THE TWELVE, WENT UNTO THE CHIEF PRIESTS TO BETRAY HIM UNTO THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PREPARATION FOR, AND THE CELEBRATION OF, THE PASSOVER. Judas offers to betray Jesus:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY HEARD IT, THEY WERE GLAD, AND PROMISED TO GIVE HIM MONEY. AND HE SOUGHT HOW HE MIGHT CONVENIENTLY BETRAY HIM. The public reprimand which Judas had received in the house of Simon in Bethany, when he voiced his displeasure over the woman's deed of kindness, seems to have been the direct... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE FIRST DAY OF UNLEAVENED BREAD, WHEN THEY KILLED THE PASSOVER, HIS DISCIPLES SAID UNTO HIM, WHERE WILT THOU THAT WE GO AND PREPARE THAT THOU MAYEST EAT THE PASSOVER?... [ Continue Reading ]
The preparation for the Passover:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SENDETH FORTH TWO OF HIS DISCIPLES AND SAITH UNTO THEM, GO YE INTO THE CITY, AND THERE SHALL MEET YOU A MAN BEARING A PITCHER OF WATER; FOLLOW HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHERESOEVER HE SHALL GO IN, SAY YE TO THE GOODMAN OF THE HOUSE, THE MASTER SAITH, WHERE IS THE GUEST CHAMBER, WHERE I SHALL EAT THE PASSOVER WITH MY DISCIPLES?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE WILL SHOW YOU A LARGE UPPER ROOM FURNISHED AND PREPARED; THERE MAKE READY FOR US.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HIS DISCIPLES WENT FORTH, AND CAME INTO THE CITY, AND FOUND AS HE HAD SAID UNTO THEM; AND THEY MADE READY THE PASSOVER. It was on the day from Wednesday evening to Thursday evening, the day when the Jews carefully swept out all leaven and leavened bread out of their houses, and which they theref... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IN THE EVENING HE COMETH WITH THE TWELVE.... [ Continue Reading ]
The paschal meal:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AS THEY SAT AND DID EAT, JESUS SAID, VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, ONE OF YOU WHICH EATETH WITH ME SHALL BETRAY ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY BEGAN TO BE SORROWFUL, AND TO SAY UNTO HIM ONE BY ONE, IS IT I? AND ANOTHER SAID, IS IT I?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THEM, IT IS ONE OF THE TWELVE THAT DIPPETH WITH ME IN THE DISH.... [ Continue Reading ]
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. In the evening, after the festival had actually begun, after sundown, Jesus came to the city with the remaining apostles, thus making the... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
The institution of the Lord's Supper:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE TOOK THE CUP, AND WHEN HE HAD GIVEN THANKS, HE GAVE IT TO THEM; AND THEY ALL DRANK OF IT.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, THIS IS MY BLOOD OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, WHICH IS SHED FOR MANY.... [ Continue Reading ]
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. The meal had practically come to a conclusion, with Christ and the disciples still reclining about the table, when the Lord did a remarkable thing. He took bread, either one... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY HAD SUNG AN HYMN, THEY WENT OUT INTO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PASSION IN GETHSEMANE. The walk to Gethsemane:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS SMITH UNTO THEM, ALL YE SHALL BE OFFENDED BECAUSE OF ME THIS NIGHT; FOR IT IS WRITTEN, I WILL SMITE THE SHEPHERD, AND THE SHEEP SHALL BE SCATTERED.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT AFTER THAT I AM RISEN, I WILL GO BEFORE YOU INTO GALILEE.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT PETER SAID UNTO HIM, ALTHOUGH ALL SHALL BE OFFENDED, YET WILL NOT I.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS SAITH UNTO HIM, VERILY I SAY UNTO THEE, THAT THIS DAY, EVEN IN THIS NIGHT, BEFORE THE COCK CROW TWICE THOU SHALT DENY ME THRICE.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE SPAKE THE MORE VEHEMENTLY, IF I SHOULD DIE WITH THEE, I WILL NOT DENY THEE IN ANY WISE. LIKEWISE ALSO SAID THEY ALL. Jesus had duly finished His last paschal meal; He had incidentally given to His disciples and to all the believers of the New Testament the wonderful blessing of the Eucharist.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY CAME TO A PLACE WHICH WAS CALLED GETHSEMANE; AND HE SAITH TO HIS DISCIPLES, SIT YE HERE WHILE I SHALL PRAY.... [ Continue Reading ]
The beginning of the agony:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE TAKETH WITH HIM PETER AND JAMES AND JOHN, AND BEGAN TO BE SORE AMAZED AND TO BE VERY HEAVY;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SAITH UNTO THEM, MY SOUL IS EXCEEDING SORROWFUL UNTO DEATH. TARRY YE HERE AND WATCH. During the discussion which followed the prediction of Christ they had reached the goal of their journey, Gethsemane. At the entrance Jesus turned to the greater number of the apostles, eight of them, since Juda... [ Continue Reading ]
The agony of Christ:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE WENT FORWARD A LITTLE, AND FELL ON THE GROUND, AND PRAYED THAT, IF IT WERE POSSIBLE, THE HOUR MIGHT PASS FROM HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID, ABBA, FATHER, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE UNTO THEE; TAKE AWAY THIS CUP FROM ME; NEVERTHELESS, NOT WHAT I WILL, BUT WHAT THOU WILT.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE COMETH AND FINDETH THEM SLEEPING, AND SAITH UNTO PETER, SIMON, SLEEPEST THOU? COULDEST NOT THOU WATCH ONE HOUR?... [ Continue Reading ]
WATCH YE AND PRAY LEST YE ENTER INTO TEMPTATION. THE SPIRIT TRULY IS READY, BUT THE FLESH IS WEAK.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AGAIN HE WENT AWAY, AND PRAYED, AND SPAKE THE SAME WORDS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE RETURNED, HE FOUND THEM ASLEEP AGAIN, (FOR THEIR EYES WERE HEAVY,) NEITHER WIST THEY WHAT TO ANSWER HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE COMETH THE THIRD TIME AND SAITH UNTO THEM, SLEEP ON NOW AND TAKE YOUR REST; IT IS ENOUGH, THE HOUR IS COME. BEHOLD, THE SON OF MAN IS BETRAYED INTO THE HANDS OF SINNERS.... [ Continue Reading ]
RISE UP, LET US GO; LO, HE THAT BETRAYETH ME IS AT HAND. It was Christ, the man, the human being, that had uttered the pitiful appeal to the three disciples to aid Him at least by watching and praying with Him. And it was His human nature, aided and sustained, indeed, by His divine nature, that here... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IMMEDIATELY, WHILE HE YET SPAKE, COMETH JUDAS, ONE OF THE TWELVE, AND WITH HIM A GREAT MULTITUDE WITH SWORDS AND STAVES, FROM THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE SCRIBES AND THE ELDERS.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CAPTURE OF JESUS. The betrayal:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE THAT BETRAYED HIM HAD GIVEN THEM A TOKEN, SAYING, WHOMSOEVER I SHALL KISS, THAT SAME IS HE; TAKE HIM, AND LEAD HIM AWAY SAFELY.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AS SOON AS HE WAS COME, HE GOETH STRAIGHTWAY TO HIM AND SAITH, MASTER, MASTER; AND KISSED HIM. Before Jesus had finished His last admonition to His disciples, Judas with his eager band came into the neighborhood, appeared upon the scene. As if to heighten the emphasis upon the heinousness of his... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY LAID THEIR HANDS ON HIM, AND TOOK HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
The capture:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ONE OF THEM THAT STOOD BY DREW A SWORD, AND SMOTE A SERVANT OF THE HIGH PRIEST, AND CUT OFF HIS EAR.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THEM, ARE YE COME OUT, AS AGAINST A THIEF, WITH SWORDS AND WITH STAVES TO TAKE ME?... [ Continue Reading ]
I WAS DAILY WITH YOU IN THE TEMPLE TEACHING, AND YE TOOK ME NOT; BUT THE SCRIPTURES MUST BE FULFILLED.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY ALL FORSOOK HIM AND FLED.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THERE FOLLOWED HIM A CERTAIN YOUNG MAN, HAVING A LINEN CLOTH CAST ABOUT HIS NAKED BODY; AND THE YOUNG MEN LAID HOLD ON HIM;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE LEFT THE LINEN CLOTH, AND FLED FROM THEM NAKED. Not the slightest resistance or show of resistance did Jesus show His captors. They laid their hands on Him and took Him captive, formally arrested Him. But this fact was too much for the fiery Peter, whose name is not mentioned in this account.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND, THEY LED JESUS AWAY TO THE HIGH PRIEST; AND WITH HIM WERE ASSEMBLED ALL THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE ELDERS AND THE SCRIBES.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE TRIAL BEFORE THE HIGH PRIEST. The first part of the trial:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND PETER FOLLOWED HIM AFAR OFF, EVEN INTO THE PALACE OF THE HIGH PRIEST; AND HE SAT WITH THE SERVANTS, AND WARMED HIMSELF AT THE FIRE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND ALL THE COUNCIL SOUGHT FOR WITNESS AGAINST JESUS TO PUT HIM TO DEATH, AND FOUND NONE.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR MANY BARE FALSE WITNESS AGAINST HIM, BUT THEIR WITNESS AGREED NOT TOGETHER.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THERE AROSE CERTAIN, AND BARE FALSE WITNESS AGAINST HIM, SAYING,... [ Continue Reading ]
WE HEARD HIM SAY, I WILL DESTROY THIS TEMPLE THAT IS MADE WITH HANDS, AND WITHIN THREE DAYS I WILL BUILD ANOTHER MADE WITHOUT HANDS.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT NEITHER SO DILL THEIR WITNESS AGREE TOGETHER. As soon as: the band of servants, under the leadership of Judas, started out from Jerusalem, the chief priests had undoubtedly sent notice to all the members of the Sanhedrin for an extraordinary session to be held at once in the palace of the high p... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE HIGH PRIEST STOOD UP IN THE MIDST AND ASKED JESUS, SAYING, ANSWEREST THOU NOTHING? WHAT IS IT WHICH THESE WITNESS AGAINST THEE?... [ Continue Reading ]
The sentence of the council:... [ Continue Reading ]
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?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS SAID, I AM; AND YE SHALL SEE THE SON OF MAN SITTING ON THE RIGHT HAND OF POWER AND COMING IN THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN THE HIGH PRIEST RENT HIS CLOTHES AND SAITH, WHAT NEED WE ANY FURTHER WITNESSES?... [ Continue Reading ]
YE HAVE HEARD THE BLASPHEMY; WHAT THINK YE? AND THEY ALL CONDEMNED HIM TO BE GUILTY OF DEATH.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SOME BEGAN TO SPIT ON HIM, AND TO COVER HIS FACE, AND TO BUFFET HIM, TO SAY UNTO HIM, PROPHESY; AND THE SERVANTS DID STRIKE HIM WITH THE PALMS OF THEIR HANDS. Caiaphas felt the imperative need of quick action to save the day, for the matter was rapidly coming to a point where the entire council... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AS PETER WAS BENEATH IN THE PALACE, THERE COMETH ONE OF THE MAIDS OF THE HIGH PRIEST.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DENIAL OF PETER. The first denial:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN SHE SAW PETER WARMING HIMSELF, SHE LOOKED UPON HIM AND SAID, AND THOU ALSO WAST WITH JESUS OF NAZARETH.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE DENIED, SAYING, I KNOW NOT, NEITHER UNDERSTAND I WHAT THOU SAYEST. AND HE WENT OUT INTO THE PORCH; AND THE COCK CREW. Beneath in the court Peter was; the session of the Sanhedrin was held in an upper room. He was sitting at the fire, where the light from the flames brought out his features ve... [ Continue Reading ]
AND A MAID SAW HIM AGAIN, AND BEGAN TO SAY TO THEM THAT STOOD BY, THIS IS ONE OF THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
The second and third denials:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE DENIED IT AGAIN. AND A LITTLE AFTER, THEY THAT STOOD BY SAID AGAIN TO PETER, SURELY THOU ART ONE OF THEM; FOR THOU ART A GALILEAN, AND THY SPEECH AGREETH THERETO.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE BEGAN TO CURSE AND TO SWEAR, SAYING, I KNOW NOT THIS MAN OF WHOM YE SPEAK.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SECOND TIME THE COCK CREW. AND PETER CALLED TO MIND THE WORD THAT JESUS SAID UNTO HIM, BEFORE THE COCK CROW TWICE, THOU SHALT DENY ME THRICE. AND WHEN HE THOUGHT THEREON, HE WEPT. The servants were naturally excited over the trial that was taking place upstairs, and many were the conjectures... [ Continue Reading ]