Mark lesson 30
Read Mark 14:1-31 – https://www.bible.com/bible/59/mrk.14.esv


Mark 14:1-11
What contrasting attitudes toward Jesus! The chief priests and scribes searched for a way to kill Him. Judas offered to betray Him. But a single woman spent 300 days' wages for perfume which she poured over His head. The disciples criticized her for this extravagant act of love. They viewed it as a waste of money, and thought it would have been better to have sold the perfume and given the money to the poor. But Jesus defended, her saying that she had anointed His body for burial, and that in all the world people would tell of her deed.


1. What did the woman pour over Jesus' head? Answer: She poured out a flask of expensive _____ made from nard (spikenard).
2. What did the disciples think should have been done with the perfume? Answer: They thought it should be sold and the money given to the _____.


Mark 14:12-­‐26
Passover was an annual feast commemorating God's sparing the Jews in the tenth plague on Egypt (see Exodus 11-­‐12). Jesus sent the disciples to prepare the feast, then He ate it with them. During the meal, Jesus warned that one of them would betray Him. He was trying to prepare the apostles for the traumatic night to follow. The Lord also took some of the bread and grape juice of the Passover and said that it was His body and blood. In this way, He initiated the observance of the Lord's Supper, a feast that was continued by the early Christians (Acts 2:42; 20:7; 1 Corinthians 11:17-­‐ 3 4 ).

Note-­‐-­‐ is it I? It is interesting to observe the disciples' reaction to Jesus' prediction that one of them would betray Him. Each asked: Is it I? They were thinking of the possibility of their own fall. Unfortunately, this moment of introspection soon vanished and in the next paragraph they return to brash overconfidence. Surprisingly, they did not ask: Is it Judas? Apparently they had not observed anything in Judas' behavior during the months they had spent together that signaled that he was disloyal. When we read Jesus' warnings in the Bible, we also should ask: Is it I?


3. When Jesus predicted that one of the disciples would betray Him, what did they ask? Answer: They asked, _____
4. In the Lord's supper, what do the bread and fruit of the vine remind us of? Answer: The bread reminds us of Jesus' _____, and the fruit of the vine reminds us of His _____.


Mark 14:27-­‐31
Jesus told the disciples that they would all fall away. Peter retorted that though the others might, he would never abandon Him. Christ replied that he would deny Him three times that very night. Again Peter denied it, saying that he would even be willing to die with Him. Perhaps Peter’s overconfidence was one reason he fulfilled this very prophecy a few hours later.


5. What did Jesus predict Peter would do that very night? Answer: Peter would _____ Jesus three times
6. How did Peter respond to this prediction? Answer: He said he would rather_____ than deny Jesus.