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Mark 14 Bible study: Not what I desire

One Greek verb runs through this chapter seven times: Judas's deliver and Jesus's "one of you will betray me" (14:18). It is the verb Jesus had used of himself, "handed over" (9:31). And only Mark says the rooster would crow twice (14:30).

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“He said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me. However, not what I desire, but what you desire.””
Mark 14:36 · World English Bible

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“In Mark 14:3, the woman poured the ointment over Jesus's head.”

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What's really going on

"Two days before the Passover"

In the text

Mark opens the chapter with the time: "It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception and kill him" (14:1). They said, "Not during the feast, because there might be a riot among the people" (14:2). Then Mark tells of a woman at Bethany who "poured it over his head" (14:3), and only after that, "Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might deliver him to them" (14:10). So Mark tells of the woman at Bethany between the plot (14:1-2) and Judas going to the chief priests (14:10-11). "On the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the Passover" (14:12), the disciples ask where to prepare, and "they prepared the Passover" (14:16). Whether the supper that evening was itself a Passover meal is a question Favor's chapter on Exodus 12 asks, setting Mark and Luke beside John and giving the main readings. This chapter doesn't ask it again.

Where it leads to Jesus

He goes before you into Galilee

In the text

Mark 14:28leads toMark 16:7

When they had gone out to the Mount of Olives (Mark 14:26), Jesus said, "However, after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee" (Mark 14:28). In the tomb, a young man sitting on the right side (Mark 16:5) says to the women, "But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He goes before you into Galilee. There you will see him, as he said to you.’" (Mark 16:7).

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  • Deliver, betray, handed over
  • "Take, eat"
  • In the courtyard below
  • "As it is written"
  • The rooster in four Gospels
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  • 12 more Greek words
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The Greek word behind it

παραδίδωμιparadidomisay par-ad-EED-o-mee

Strong's: "to surrender, i.e yield up, intrust, transmit". Thayer: "to give over into (one's) power or use". "woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed!" (14:21). In this chapter the verb is tagged seven times, in seven verses (14:10, 14:11, 14:18, 14:21, 14:41, 14:42, 14:44), and the WEB gives it as deliver, betray, betrayed and betrays. Mark has it 20 times (counted in RP2018, the Byzantine text the WEB translates); chapter 3 follows it through the book. Paul uses it twice in one verse about this night: "For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread" (1 Corinthians 11:23).

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Mark 14 Bible study questions

  1. 1While some grumbled about waste, Jesus said of the woman, "She has done what she could" (14:8). What would it look like for you to do what you can for Jesus this week?
  2. 2"Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak" (14:38). Where do you feel that most, and what helps you watch and pray?
  3. 3Peter said, "I will not deny you" (14:31), and that night denied him, then remembered Jesus's words and wept (14:72). When have you meant something with your whole heart and fallen short? What did you do next?

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