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826  |  Mark 13:23 
e ­ lect. 23  So be on your ­g uard; I have told you ev­
ery­t hing a ­ head of time.
24  “But in ­t hose days, fol­low­i ng that dis­t ress,
“ ‘the sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not give its light;
25 the stars will fall from the sky,
and the heavenly bodies will be
shaken.’  a
26  “At that time peo­ple will see the Son of
Man com­i ng in ­clouds with ­g reat pow­er and
glo­r y. 27  And he will send his an­gels and gath­er
his ­elect from the four ­w inds, from the ends of
the ­earth to the ends of the heav­ens.
28  “Now ­learn this les­s on 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 hap­pen­
ing, you know that it  b is near, ­r ight at the door.
30  Tru­l y I tell you, this gen­er­a­t ion will cer­t ain­l y
not pass away un­t il all ­t hese ­t hings have hap­
pened. 31  Heav­en and ­earth will pass away, but
my w
­ ords will nev­er pass away.
The Day and Hour Unknown
32  “But ­about that day or hour no one ­k nows,
not even the an­gels in heav­en, nor the Son, but
only the Fa­t her. 33  Be on ­g uard! Be ­a lert  c  ! You
do not know when that time will come. 34  It’s
like a man go­ing away: He ­leaves his ­house and
puts his ser­vants in ­charge, each with their as­
signed task, and ­tells the one at the door to
keep watch.
35  “There­fore keep ­w atch be­c ause you do not
know when the own­er of the ­house will come
back — ​w heth­er in the eve­n ing, or at mid­
night, or when the roost­er ­crows, or at dawn.
36  If he ­comes sud­den­l y, do not let him find you
sleep­i ng. 37  What I say to you, I say to ev­ery­one:
‘Watch!’ ”
Jesus Anointed at Bethany
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Now the Pass­over and the Fes­t i­v al of
Un­leav­ened ­Bread were only two days
away, and the ­chief ­priests and the teach­ers of
the law were schem­i ng to ar­rest ­Jesus se­cret­
ly and kill him. 2  “But not dur­i ng the fes­t i­val,”
they said, “or the peo­ple may riot.”
3  While he was in Beth­a ­ny, re­c lin­i ng at the
ta­ble in the home of Si­mon the Lep­er, a wom­a n
came with an al­a­bas­ter jar of very ex­pen­sive
per­f ume, made of pure nard. She ­broke the jar
and ­poured the per­f ume on his head.
4  Some of ­t hose pres­ent were say­i ng in­d ig­
nant­ly to one an­oth­er, “Why this ­waste of per­
a  25 
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fume? 5  It ­could have been sold for more than
a ­year’s wag­es  d and the mon­e y giv­en to the
poor.” And they re­buked her harsh­ly.
6  “Leave her ­a lone,” said ­Jesus. “Why are
you both­er­i ng her? She has done a beau­t i­f ul
t hing to me. 7  The poor you will al­w ays have
with you,  e and you can help them any time you
want. But you will not al­w ays have me. 8  She
did what she ­could. She ­poured per­f ume on
my body be­fore­hand to pre­pare for my buri­
al. 9  Tru­l y I tell you, wher­e v­er the gos­pel is
preached through­out the ­world, what she has
done will also be told, in mem­o­r y of her.”
10  Then Ju­d as Is­c ar­i­ot, one of the ­Twelve,
went to the ­c hief ­priests to be­t ray ­Jesus to
them. 11  They were de­l ight­ed to hear this and
prom­ised to give him mon­e y. So he ­w atched
for an op­por­t u­n i­t y to hand him over.
The Last Supper
12  On the ­f irst day of the Fes­t i­v al of Un­leav­
ened ­Bread, when it was cus­tom­a ry to sac­r i­f ice
the Pass­over lamb, ­Jesus’ dis­ci­ples ­asked him,
“Where do you want us to go and make prep­a­
ra­t ions for you to eat the Pass­over?”
13  So he sent two of his dis­c i­p les, tell­i ng
them, “Go into the city, and a man car­r y­i ng a
jar of wa­ter will meet you. Fol­low him. 14  Say to
the own­er of the ­house he en­ters, ‘The Teach­
er asks: ­W here is my ­g uest room, ­where I may
eat the Pass­over with my dis­ci­ples?’ 15  He will
show you a ­large room up­stairs, fur­n ished and
ready. Make prep­a ­ra­t ions for us there.”
16  The dis­c i­ples left, went into the city and
found ­t hings just as ­Jesus had told them. So
they pre­pared the Pass­over.
17  When eve­n ing came, ­Jesus ar­r ived with
the ­Twelve. 18  While they were re­c lin­i ng at
the ta­ble eat­i ng, he said, “Tru­l y I tell you,
one of you will be­t ray me — ​one who is eat­i ng
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 be­t rays the Son
of Man! It ­would be bet­ter for him if he had not
been born.”
22  While they were eat­i ng, ­Jesus took ­bread,
and when he had giv­en ­t hanks, he ­broke it and
gave it to his dis­ci­ples, say­i ng, “Take it; this is
my body.”
23  Then he took a cup, and when he had
giv­en ­t hanks, he gave it to them, and they all
d rank from it.
Isaiah 13:10; 34:4    b  29  Or he    c  33  Some manuscripts alert and pray    d  5  Greek than three hundred denarii   
See Deut. 15:11.