Mark, 14
The first part of the history of the passion of Christ.
[1] Now the feast of the pasch and of the Azymes 1 was after two days: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might by some wile lay hold on him and kill him. •
Azymes: That is, the feast of the unleavened bread.
[2] But they said: Not on the festival day, lest there should be a tumult among the people. •
[3] And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of precious spikenard. And breaking the alabaster box, she poured it out upon his head. •
[4] Now there were some that had indignation within themselves and said: Why was this waste of the ointment made? •
[5] For this ointment might have been sold for more than three hundred pence and given to the poor. And they murmured against her. •
[6] But Jesus said: Let her alone. Why do You molest her? She hath wrought a good work upon me.
[7] For the poor you have always with you: and whensoever you will, you may do them good: but me you have not always. •
[8] She hath done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my body for the burial.
[9] Amen, I say to you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, that also which she hath done shall be told for a memorial of her.
[10] And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests, to betray him to them. •
[11] Who hearing it were glad: and they promised him they would give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.
[12] Now on the first day of the unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the pasch, the disciples say to him: Whither wilt thou that we go and prepare for thee to eat the pasch? •
[13] And he sendeth two of his disciples and saith to them: Go ye into the city; and there shall meet you a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him. •
[14] And whithersoever he shall go in, say to the master of the house, The master saith, Where is my refectory, where I may eat the pasch with my disciples? •
[15] And he will shew you a large dining room furnished. And there prepare ye for us. •
[16] And his disciples went their way and came into the city. And they found as he had told them: and they prepared the pasch. •
[17] And when evening was come, he cometh with the twelve. •
[18] And when they were at table and eating, Jesus saith: Amen I say to you, one of you that eateth with me shall betray me. •
[19] But they began to be sorrowful and to say to him, one by one: Is it I?
[20] Who saith to them: One of the twelve, who dippeth with me his hand in the dish. •
[21] And the Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man shall be betrayed. It were better for him, if that man had not been born. •
[22] And whilst they were eating, Jesus took bread; and blessing, broke and gave to them and said: Take ye. This is my body. •
[23] And having taken the chalice, giving thanks, he gave it to them. And they all drank of it.
[24] And he said to them: This is my blood of the new testament, which shall be shed for many. •
[25] Amen I say to you that I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine until that day when I shall drink it new in the kingdom of God. •
[26] And when they had sung an hymn, they went forth to the mount of Olives. •
[27] And Jesus saith to them: You will all be scandalized in my regard this night. For it is written: I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep shall be dispersed. •
[28] But after I shall be risen again, I will go before you into Galilee.
[29] But Peter saith to him: Although all shall be scandalized in thee, yet not I.
[30] And Jesus saith to him: Amen I say to thee, to-day, even in this night, before the cock crow twice 1, thou shalt deny me thrice.
Crow twice: The cocks crow at two different times of the night; that is, about midnight for the first time; and then about the time commonly called the cock crowing; and this was the cock crowing our Saviour spoke of; and therefore the other Evangelists take no notice of the first crowing.
[31] But he spoke the more vehemently: Although I should die together with thee, I will not deny thee. And in like manner also said they all.
[32] And they came to a farm called Gethsemani. And he saith to his disciples: Sit you here, while I pray. •
[33] And he taketh Peter and James and John with him: and he began to fear and to be heavy.
[34] And he saith to them: My soul is sorrowful even unto death. Stay you here and watch.
[35] And when he was gone forward a little, he fell flat on the ground: and he prayed that, if it might be, the hour might pass from him.
[36] And he saith: Abba, Father, all things are possible to thee: remove this chalice from me; but not what I will, but what thou wilt. •
[37] And he cometh and findeth them sleeping. And he saith to Peter: Simon, sleepest thou? Couldst thou not watch one hour? •
[38] Watch ye: and pray that you enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
[39] And going away again, he prayed, saying the same words.
[40] And when he returned, he found them again asleep (for their eyes were heavy): and they knew not what to answer him.
[41] And he cometh the third time and saith to them: Sleep ye now and take your rest. It is enough. The hour is come: behold the Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of sinners. •
[42] Rise up: let us go. Behold, he that will betray me is at hand.
[43] And while he was yet speaking, cometh Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve: and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and the scribes and the ancients. •
[44] And he that betrayed him had given them a sign, saying: Whomsoever I shall kiss, that is he. Lay hold on him: and lead him away carefully.
[45] And when he was come, immediately going up to him he saith: Hail, Rabbi! And he kissed him. •
[46] But they laid hands on him and held him. •
[47] And one of them that stood by, drawing a sword, struck a servant of the chief priest and cut off his ear. •
[48] And Jesus answering, said to them: Are you come out as to a robber, with swords and staves to apprehend me?
[49] I was daily with you in the temple teaching: and you did not lay hands on me. But that the scriptures may be fulfilled.
[50] Then his disciples, leaving him, all fled away. •
[51] And a certain young man followed him, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body. And they laid hold on him. •
[52] But he, casting off the linen cloth, fled from them naked.
[53] And they brought Jesus to the high priest. And all the priests and the scribes and the ancients assembled together. •
[54] And Peter followed him afar off, even into the court of the high priest. And he sat with the servants at the fire and warmed himself. •
[55] And the chief priests and all the council sought for evidence against Jesus, that they might put him to death: and found none. •
[56] For many bore false witness against him: and their evidences were not agreeing. •
[57] And some rising up, bore false witness against him, saying: •
[58] We heard him say, I Will destroy this temple made with hands and within three days I will build another not made with hands. •
[59] And their witness did not agree.
[60] And the high priest rising up in the midst, asked Jesus, saying: Answerest thou nothing to the things that are laid to thy charge by these men?
[61] But he held his peace and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him and said to him: Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed God? •
[62] And Jesus said to him: I am. And you shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of the power of God and coming with the clouds of heaven. •
[63] Then the high priest rending his garments, saith: What need we any further witnesses? •
[64] You have heard the blasphemy. What think you? Who all condemned him to be guilty of death.
[65] And some began to spit on him and to cover his face and to buffet him and to say unto him: Prophesy. And the servants struck him with the palms their hands. •
[66] Now when Peter was in the court below, there cometh one of the maidservants of the high priest. •
[67] And when she had seen Peter warming himself looking on him, she saith: Thou also wast with Jesus of Nazareth.
[68] But he denied, saying: I neither know nor understand what thou sayest. And he went forth before the court; and the cock crew. •
[69] And again a maidservant seeing him, began to say to the standers by: This is one of them. •
[70] But he denied again. And after a, while they that stood by said again to Peter: Surely thou art one of them; for thou art also a Galilean. •
[71] But he began o curse and to swear, saying: I know not this man of whom you speak. •
[72] And immediately the cock crew again. And Peter remembered the word that Jesus had said unto him: Before the cock crow twice, thou shalt thrice deny me. And he began to weep, •