Mark 14:1

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Mark 14:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Now the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were two days away, and the chief priests and scribes were looking for a covert way to arrest Jesus and kill Him.

2 “But not during the feast,” they said, “or there may be a riot among the people.”

3 While Jesus was in Bethany reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke open the jar and poured it on Jesus’ head.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Matthew 6:2

So when you give to the needy, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.

Luke 22:1

Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread, called the Passover, was approaching,

Luke 22:2

and the chief priests and scribes were looking for a way to put Jesus to death; for they feared the people.

John 11:53

So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.

John 11:54

As a result, Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but He withdrew to a town called Ephraim in an area near the wilderness. And He stayed there with the disciples.

John 11:55

Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem to purify themselves before the Passover.

John 11:56

They kept looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple courts, “What do you think? Will He come to the feast at all?”

John 11:57

But the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where He was must report it, so that they could arrest Him.

John 13:1

It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end.

Exodus 12:6

You must keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.

Exodus 12:7

They are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.

Exodus 12:8

They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

Exodus 12:9

Do not eat any of the meat raw or cooked in boiling water, but only roasted over the fire—its head and legs and inner parts.

Exodus 12:10

Do not leave any of it until morning; before the morning you must burn up any part that is left over.

Exodus 12:11

This is how you are to eat it: You must be fully dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. You are to eat in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover.

Exodus 12:12

On that night I will pass through the land of Egypt and strike down every firstborn male, both man and beast, and I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.

Exodus 12:13

The blood on the houses where you are staying will distinguish them; when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No plague will fall on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

Exodus 12:14

And this day will be a memorial for you, and you are to celebrate it as a feast to the LORD, as a permanent statute for the generations to come.

Exodus 12:15

For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.

Exodus 12:16

On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly, and another on the seventh day. You must not do any work on those days, except to prepare the meals—that is all you may do.

Exodus 12:17

So you are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your divisions out of the land of Egypt. You must keep this day as a permanent statute for the generations to come.

Exodus 12:18

In the first month you are to eat unleavened bread, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.

Exodus 12:19

For seven days there must be no leaven found in your houses. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a foreigner or native of the land, must be cut off from the congregation of Israel.

Exodus 12:20

You are not to eat anything leavened; eat unleavened bread in all your homes.”

Leviticus 23:5

The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Leviticus 23:6

On the fifteenth day of the same month begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.

Leviticus 23:7

On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any regular work.

Numbers 28:16

The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.

Numbers 28:17

On the fifteenth day of this month, there shall be a feast; for seven days unleavened bread is to be eaten.

Numbers 28:18

On the first day there is to be a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.

Numbers 28:19

Present to the LORD an offering made by fire, a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old, all unblemished.

Numbers 28:20

The grain offering shall consist of fine flour mixed with oil; offer three-tenths of an ephah with each bull, two-tenths of an ephah with the ram,

Numbers 28:21

and a tenth of an ephah with each of the seven lambs.

Numbers 28:22

Include one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you.

Numbers 28:23

You are to present these in addition to the regular morning burnt offering.

Numbers 28:24

Offer the same food each day for seven days as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD. It is to be offered with its drink offering and the regular burnt offering.

Numbers 28:25

On the seventh day you shall hold a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.

Deuteronomy 16:1

Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

Deuteronomy 16:2

You are to offer to the LORD your God the Passover sacrifice from the herd or flock in the place the LORD will choose as a dwelling for His Name.

Deuteronomy 16:3

You must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 16:4

No leaven is to be found in all your land for seven days, and none of the meat you sacrifice in the evening of the first day shall remain until morning.

Deuteronomy 16:5

You are not to sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns that the LORD your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 16:6

You must only offer the Passover sacrifice at the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name. Do this in the evening as the sun sets, at the same time you departed from Egypt.

Deuteronomy 16:7

And you shall roast it and eat it in the place the LORD your God will choose, and in the morning you shall return to your tents.

Deuteronomy 16:8

For six days you must eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day you shall hold a solemn assembly to the LORD your God, and you must not do any work.

Psalms 2:1

Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

Psalms 2:2

The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One:

Psalms 2:3

“Let us break Their chains and cast away Their cords.”

Psalms 2:4

The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord taunts them.

Psalms 2:5

Then He rebukes them in His anger, and terrifies them in His fury:

John 11:47

Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.

Acts 4:25

You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

Acts 4:26

The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against His Anointed One.’

Acts 4:27

In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed.

Acts 4:28

They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.

Psalms 52:3

You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah

Psalms 62:4

They fully intend to cast him down from his lofty perch; they delight in lies; with their mouths they bless, but inwardly they curse. Selah

Psalms 62:9

Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.

Psalms 64:2

Hide me from the scheming of the wicked, from the mob of workers of iniquity,

Psalms 64:3

who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,

Psalms 64:4

ambushing the innocent in seclusion, shooting suddenly, without fear.

Psalms 64:5

They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. “Who will see them?” they say.

Psalms 64:6

They devise injustice and say, “We have perfected a secret plan.” For the inner man and the heart are mysterious.

Matthew 26:4

and they conspired to arrest Jesus covertly and kill Him.