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Mark 14:8-23 New International Version (NIV)

8. She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial.

9. Truly I tell you, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.”

10. Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Jesus to them.

11. They were delighted to hear this and promised to give him money. So he watched for an opportunity to hand him over.

12. On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, when it was customary to sacrifice the Passover lamb, Jesus’ disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover?”

13. So he sent two of his disciples, telling them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him.

14. Say to the owner of the house he enters, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’

15. He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there.”

16. The disciples left, went into the city and found things just as Jesus had told them. So they prepared the Passover.

17. When evening came, Jesus arrived with the Twelve.

18. While they were reclining at the table eating, he said, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me—one who is eating with me.”

19. They were saddened, and one by one they said to him, “Surely you don’t mean me?”

20. “It is one of the Twelve,” he replied, “one who dips bread into the bowl with me.

21. The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him. But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born.”

22. While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take it; this is my body.”

23. Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank from it.

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