dby - Mark:14:1-11

dby@Mark:14:1 @ Now the passover and the [feast of] unleavened bread was after two days. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they might seize him by subtlety and kill him.

dby@Mark:14:2 @ For they said, Not in the feast, lest perhaps there be a tumult of the people.

dby@Mark:14:3 @ And when he was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he lay at table, there came a woman having an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly; and having broken the alabaster flask, she poured it out upon his head.

dby@Mark:14:4 @ And there were some indignant in themselves, and saying, Why has this waste been made of the ointment?

dby@Mark:14:5 @ for this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor. And they spoke very angrily at her.

dby@Mark:14:6 @ But Jesus said, Let her alone; why do ye trouble her? she has wrought a good work as to me;

dby@Mark:14:7 @ for ye have the poor always with you, and whenever ye would ye can do them good; but me ye have not always.

dby@Mark:14:8 @ What she could she has done. She has beforehand anointed my body for the burial.

dby@Mark:14:9 @ And verily I say unto you, Wheresoever these glad tidings may be preached in the whole world, what this [woman] has done shall be also spoken of for a memorial of her.

dby@Mark:14:10 @ And Judas Iscariote, one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests that he might deliver him up to them;

dby@Mark:14:11 @ and they, when they heard it, rejoiced, and promised him to give money. And he sought how he could opportunely deliver him up.