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Mark 14:21

Mark 14:21 is verse 21 of Mark chapter 14, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed! It would be better for him if he had not been born.”

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King James Version

The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had never been born.

World English Bible

For the Son of Man goes as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

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Mark 14:19–23 · Berean Standard Bible

19 They began to be grieved and to ask Him one after another, “Surely not I?”

20 He answered, “It is one of the Twelve—the one who is dipping his hand into the bowl with Me.

21 The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed! It would be better for him if he had not been born.”

22 While they were eating, Jesus took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Take it; this is My body.”

23 Then He took the cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, and they all drank from it.

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Cross-references

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

Mark 14:49

Every day I was with you, teaching in the temple courts, and you did not arrest Me. But this has happened that the Scriptures would be fulfilled.”

Genesis 3:15

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

Psalms 22:1

My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?

Psalms 22:2

I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.

Psalms 22:3

Yet You are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.

Psalms 22:4

In You our fathers trusted; they trusted and You delivered them.

Psalms 22:5

They cried out to You and were set free; they trusted in You and were not disappointed.

Psalms 22:6

But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.

Psalms 22:7

All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads:

Psalms 22:8

“He trusts in the LORD, let the LORD deliver him; let the LORD rescue him, since He delights in him.”

Psalms 22:9

Yet You brought me forth from the womb; You made me secure at my mother’s breast.

Psalms 22:10

From birth I was cast upon You; from my mother’s womb You have been my God.

Psalms 22:11

Be not far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.

Psalms 22:12

Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.

Psalms 22:13

They open their jaws against me like lions that roar and maul.

Psalms 22:14

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.

Psalms 22:15

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.

Psalms 22:16

For dogs surround me; a band of evil men encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet.

Psalms 22:17

I can count all my bones; they stare and gloat over me.

Psalms 22:18

They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.

Psalms 22:19

But You, O LORD, be not far off; O my Strength, come quickly to help me.

Psalms 22:20

Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of wild dogs.

Psalms 22:21

Save me from the mouth of the lion; at the horns of the wild oxen You have answered me!

Psalms 22:22

I will proclaim Your name to my brothers; I will praise You in the assembly.

Psalms 22:23

You who fear the LORD, praise Him! All descendants of Jacob, honor Him! All offspring of Israel, revere Him!

Psalms 22:24

For He has not despised or detested the torment of the afflicted. He has not hidden His face from him, but has attended to his cry for help.

Psalms 22:25

My praise for You resounds in the great assembly; I will fulfill my vows before those who fear You.

Psalms 22:26

The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise Him. May your hearts live forever!

Psalms 22:27

All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him.

Psalms 22:28

For dominion belongs to the LORD and He rules over the nations.

Psalms 22:29

All the rich of the earth will feast and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before Him— even those unable to preserve their lives.

Psalms 22:30

Posterity will serve Him; they will declare the Lord to a new generation.

Psalms 22:31

They will come and proclaim His righteousness to a people yet unborn— all that He has done.

Psalms 69:1

Save me, O God, for the waters are up to my neck.

Psalms 69:2

I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me.

Psalms 69:3

I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

Psalms 69:4

Those who hate me without cause outnumber the hairs of my head; many are those who would destroy me— my enemies for no reason. Though I did not steal, I must repay.

Psalms 69:5

You know my folly, O God, and my guilt is not hidden from You.

Psalms 69:6

May those who hope in You not be ashamed through me, O Lord GOD of Hosts; may those who seek You not be dishonored through me, O God of Israel.

Psalms 69:7

For I have endured scorn for Your sake, and shame has covered my face.

Psalms 69:8

I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother’s sons,

Psalms 69:9

because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.

Psalms 69:10

I wept and fasted, but it brought me reproach.

Psalms 69:11

I made sackcloth my clothing, and I was sport to them.

Psalms 69:12

Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of drunkards.

Psalms 69:13

But my prayer to You, O LORD, is for a time of favor. In Your abundant loving devotion, O God, answer me with Your sure salvation.

Psalms 69:14

Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep waters.

Psalms 69:15

Do not let the floods engulf me or the depths swallow me up; let not the Pit close its mouth over me.

Psalms 69:16

Answer me, O LORD, for Your loving devotion is good; turn to me in keeping with Your great compassion.

Psalms 69:17

Hide not Your face from Your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me quickly!

Psalms 69:18

Draw near to my soul and redeem me; ransom me because of my foes.

Psalms 69:19

You know my reproach, my shame and disgrace. All my adversaries are before You.

Psalms 69:20

Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found no one.

Psalms 69:21

They poisoned my food with gall and gave me vinegar to quench my thirst.

Psalms 69:22

May their table become a snare; may it be a retribution and a trap.

Psalms 69:23

May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.

Psalms 69:24

Pour out Your wrath upon them, and let Your burning anger overtake them.

Psalms 69:25

May their place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in their tents.

Psalms 69:26

For they persecute the one You struck and recount the pain of those You wounded.

Psalms 69:27

Add iniquity to their iniquity; let them not share in Your righteousness.

Psalms 69:28

May they be blotted out of the Book of Life and not listed with the righteous.

Psalms 69:29

But I am in pain and distress; let Your salvation protect me, O God.

Psalms 69:30

I will praise God’s name in song and exalt Him with thanksgiving.

Psalms 69:31

And this will please the LORD more than an ox, more than a bull with horns and hooves.

Psalms 69:32

The humble will see and rejoice. You who seek God, let your hearts be revived!

Psalms 69:33

For the LORD listens to the needy and does not despise His captive people.

Psalms 69:34

Let heaven and earth praise Him, the seas and everything that moves in them.

Psalms 69:35

For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah, that they may dwell there and possess it.

Psalms 69:36

The descendants of His servants will inherit it, and those who love His name will settle in it.

Isaiah 52:14

Just as many were appalled at Him — His appearance was disfigured beyond that of any man, and His form was marred beyond human likeness—

Isaiah 53:1

Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

Isaiah 53:2

He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him.

Isaiah 53:3

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.

Isaiah 53:4

Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted.

Isaiah 53:5

But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.

Isaiah 53:6

We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.

Isaiah 53:7

He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.

Isaiah 53:8

By oppression and judgment He was taken away, and who can recount His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was stricken for the transgression of My people.

Isaiah 53:9

He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.

Isaiah 53:10

Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.

Isaiah 53:11

After the anguish of His soul, He will see the light of life and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will bear their iniquities.

Isaiah 53:12

Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

Daniel 9:24

Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.

Daniel 9:26

Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.

Zechariah 13:7

Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, against the man who is My Companion, declares the LORD of Hosts. Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn My hand against the little ones.

Matthew 26:24

The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed. It would be better for him if he had not been born.”

Matthew 26:54

But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen this way?”

Matthew 26:56

But this has all happened so that the writings of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples deserted Him and fled.

Luke 22:22

Indeed, the Son of Man will go as it has been determined, but woe to that man who betrays Him.”

Luke 24:26

Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and then to enter His glory?”

Luke 24:27

And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was written in all the Scriptures about Himself.

Luke 24:44

Jesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.”

John 19:28

After this, knowing that everything had now been accomplished, and to fulfill the Scripture, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”

John 19:36

Now these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of His bones will be broken.”

John 19:37

And, as another Scripture says: “They will look on the One they have pierced.”

Acts 2:23

He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.

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 13:27

The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning Him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.

Acts 13:28

And though they found no ground for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have Him executed.

Acts 13:29

When they had carried out all that was written about Him, they took Him down from the tree and laid Him in a tomb.

Psalms 55:15

Let death seize them by surprise; let them go down to Sheol alive, for evil is with them in their homes.

Psalms 109:6

Set over him a wicked man; let an accuser stand at his right hand.

Psalms 109:7

When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayer be regarded as sin.

Psalms 109:8

May his days be few; may another take his position.

Psalms 109:9

May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

Psalms 109:10

May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.

Psalms 109:11

May the creditor seize all he owns, and strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

Psalms 109:12

May there be no one to extend kindness to him, and no one to favor his fatherless children.

Psalms 109:13

May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.

Psalms 109:14

May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and the sin of his mother never be blotted out.

Psalms 109:15

May their sins always remain before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth.

Psalms 109:16

For he never thought to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and brokenhearted, even to their death.

Psalms 109:17

The cursing that he loved, may it fall on him; the blessing in which he refused to delight, may it be far from him.

Psalms 109:18

The cursing that he wore like a coat, may it soak into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.

Psalms 109:19

May it be like a robe wrapped about him, like a belt tied forever around him.

Psalms 109:20

May this be the LORD’s reward to my accusers, to those who speak evil against me.

Matthew 18:7

Woe to the world for the causes of sin. These stumbling blocks must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!

Matthew 27:3

When Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was filled with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders.

Matthew 27:4

“I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said. “What is that to us?” they replied. “You bear the responsibility.”

Matthew 27:5

So Judas threw the silver into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.

Acts 1:16

“Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit foretold through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide for those who arrested Jesus.

Acts 1:17

He was one of our number and shared in this ministry.”

Acts 1:18

(Now with the reward for his wickedness Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong and burst open in the middle, and all his intestines spilled out.

Acts 1:19

This became known to all who lived in Jerusalem, so they called that field in their own language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.)

Acts 1:20

“For it is written in the book of Psalms: ‘May his place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in it,’ and, ‘May another take his position.’

Acts 1:25

to take up this ministry and apostleship, which Judas abandoned to go to his rightful place.”

Matthew 18:6

But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.

Matthew 26:25

Then Judas, who would betray Him, said, “Surely not I, Rabbi?” Jesus answered, “You have said it yourself.”

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