Mark 14:1-3

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The Jewish Leaders Plan to Kill Jesus^(A)

14 It was now only two days before the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. The leading priests and teachers of the law were trying to find a way to arrest Jesus without the people seeing it. Then they could kill him. ² They said, “But we cannot arrest Jesus during the festival. We don’t want the people to be angry and cause a riot.”

A Woman Does Something Special^(B)

³ Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper. While he was eating there, a woman came to him. She had an alabaster jar filled with expensive perfume made of pure nard. She opened the jar and poured the perfume on Jesus’ head.