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873  l   Mark 14:24
and glo­ry. 27 And he will send his an­gels
and gath­er his e
­ lect from the four ­winds,
from the ends of the ­earth to the ends of
the heav­ens.
28 “Now ­learn this les­son from the fig
tree: As soon as its t ­ wigs get ten­der and its
leaves come out, you know that sum­mer is
near. 29 Even so, when you see t ­ hese t ­ hings
hap­pen­ing, you know that it  a is near, r ­ ight
at the door. 30 Tru­ly I tell you, this gen­er­a­
tion will cer­tain­ly not pass away un­til all
these ­things have hap­pened. 31 Heav­en and
earth will pass away, but my ­words will
nev­er pass away.
The Day and Hour Unknown
32 “But a
­ bout that day or hour no one
­ nows, not even the an­gels in heav­en,
k
nor the Son, but only the Fa­ther. 33 Be on
­guard! Be ­alert  b  ! You do not know when
that time will come. 34 It’s like a man go­ing
away: He ­leaves his ­house and puts his ser­
vants in c ­ harge, each with their as­signed
task, and t ­ ells the one at the door to keep
watch.
35 “There­fore keep ­watch be­cause you do
not know when the own­er of the ­house will
come back — ​wheth­er in the eve­ning, or at
mid­night, or when the roost­er ­crows, or at
dawn. 36 If he c ­ omes sud­den­ly, do not let
him find you sleep­ing. 37 What I say to you,
I say to ev­ery­one: ‘Watch!’ ”
Jesus Anointed at Bethany
14
Now the Pass­over and the Fes­ti­val
of Un­leav­ened B
­ read were only two
days away, and the ­chief ­priests and the
teach­ers of the law were schem­ing to ar­
rest ­Jesus se­cret­ly and kill him. 2 “But not
dur­ing the fes­ti­val,” they said, “or the peo­
ple may riot.”
3 While he was in Beth­a­ny, re­clin­ing at
the ta­ble in the home of Si­mon the Lep­er,
a wom­an came with an al­a­bas­ter jar of very
ex­pen­sive per­fume, made of pure nard.
She ­broke the jar and ­poured the per­fume
on his head.
4 Some of t ­ hose pres­ent were say­ing in­
dig­nant­ly to one an­oth­er, “Why this ­waste
of per­fume? 5 It ­could have been sold for
more than a ­year’s wag­es  c and the mon­ey
giv­en to the poor.” And they re­buked her
harsh­ly.
6 “Leave her ­alone,” said ­Jesus. “Why are
you both­er­ing her? She has done a beau­ti­
ful ­thing to me. 7 The poor you will al­ways
have with you,  d and you can help them
any time you want. But you will not al­ways
have me. 8 She did what she ­could. She
poured per­fume on my body be­fore­hand
to pre­pare for my buri­al. 9 Tru­ly I tell you,
wher­ev­er the gos­pel is p
­ reached through­
out the ­world, what she has done will also
be told, in mem­o­ry of her.”
10  Then Ju­das Is­car­i­ot, one of the ­Twelve,
went to the ­chief ­priests to be­tray ­Jesus to
them. 11 They were de­light­ed to hear this
and prom­ised to give him mon­ey. So he
watched for an op­por­tu­ni­ty to hand him
over.
The Last Supper
12 On the ­first day of the Fes­ti­val of Un­
leav­ened ­Bread, when it was cus­tom­ary to
sac­ri­fice the Pass­over lamb, ­Jesus’ dis­ci­ples
asked him, “Where do you want us to go
and make prep­a­ra­tions for you to eat the
Pass­over?”
13 So he sent two of his dis­ci­ples, tell­ing
them, “Go into the city, and a man car­ry­
ing a jar of wa­ter will meet you. Fol­low
him. 14 Say to the own­er of the ­house he en­
ters, ‘The Teach­er asks: ­Where is my ­guest
room, ­where I may eat the Pass­over with
my dis­ci­ples?’ 15 He will show you a ­large
room up­stairs, fur­nished and ­ready. Make
prep­a­ra­tions for us there.”
16 The dis­ci­ples left, went into the city
and ­found t ­ hings just as ­Jesus had told
them. So they pre­pared the Pass­over.
17   When eve­ning came, ­Jesus ar­rived
with the ­Twelve. 18 While they were re­clin­
ing at the ta­ble eat­ing, he said, “Tru­ly I tell
you, one of you will be­tray me — ​one who
is eat­ing with me.”
19 They were sad­dened, and one by one
they said to him, “Sure­ly you don’t mean
me?”
20 “It is one of the ­Twelve,” he re­plied,
“one who dips ­bread into the bowl with
me. 21 The Son of Man will go just as it is
writ­ten ­about him. But woe to that man
who be­trays the Son of Man! It ­would be
bet­ter for him if he had not been born.”
22 While they were eat­ing, ­Jesus took
bread, and when he had giv­en ­thanks, he
broke it and gave it to his dis­ci­ples, say­ing,
“Take it; this is my body.”
23 Then he took a cup, and when he had
giv­en ­thanks, he gave it to them, and they
all ­drank from it.
24 “This is my b
­ lood of the  e cov­enant,
which is p
­ oured out for many,” he said to
a  29 Or he    b  33 
Some manuscripts alert and
pray    c  5 Greek than three hundred denarii   
Deut. 15:11.    e  24  Some manuscripts
the new   
d  7 See