Mark 14:1-11 - SHE DID WHAT SHE COULD

PLOTTING
¹ It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a way to capture Him by trickery and kill Him, ² for they were saying, “Not during the feast, or there could well be a riot from the people.”

ANOINTING
³ While He was at Bethany in Simon the Leper’s home, as He was reclining at table, a woman approached with an alabaster bottle of ointment, pure nard, extremely expensive. She broke the bottle and poured [the ointment] over His head.

COMPLAINING
⁴ There were some who growled to themselves, “Why was the ointment wasted like that? ⁵ For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and [the money] distributed to the poor.” They started ranking on her.

DEFENDING
⁶ But Jesus said, “Leaver her alone. Why give her a hard time? She’s done a beautiful thing for Me. ⁷ For you always have the poor with you; you can do good for them any time you like. But Me–you won’t always have Me. ⁸ She did what she could. She anointed My body for burial, ahead of time. ⁹ Truly, I tell you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed across the whole world, what she has done will also be told–in memory of her.”

DEALING
¹⁰ Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went off to the chief priests with the idea of handing Him over to them. ¹¹ When they heard it, they were delighted and promised to pay him money. So he started looking for a good time to betray Him.