nsb - Mark:14:1-11

nsb@Mark:14:1 @ It was just two days until the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread. The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might quietly capture and kill him.

nsb@Mark:14:2 @ They said: »Not during the feast for it might cause the people to riot.«

nsb@Mark:14:3 @ He was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper. While he was dining a woman with an alabaster vase filled with costly perfume, of pure nard, brake it open and poured it over his head.

nsb@Mark:14:4 @ Some were very indignant over this. They asked, »What was the purpose of this waste of ointment?

nsb@Mark:14:5 @ »This ointment might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii. And the money could have been given to the poor. They scolded her.«

nsb@Mark:14:6 @ Jesus said: »Let her alone. Why do you trouble her? She did a good thing to me.

nsb@Mark:14:7 @ »You always have the poor with you and you can do them good. You do not always have me.

nsb@Mark:14:8 @ »She did what she could! She anointed my body beforehand for burying.

nsb@Mark:14:9 @ »Truly I tell you everywhere the good news is preached through out the whole world, that which this woman has done will be spoken of for a memorial of her.«

nsb@Mark:14:10 @ Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might betray Jesus to them.

nsb@Mark:14:11 @ They were glad to hear it and promised to give him money. He looked for ways how he might conveniently deliver Jesus to them.