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Mark 14:18 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" As they sat and were eating, Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, one of you will betray me—he who eats with me.” "
Mark 14:18
Verse in Context
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16 His disciples went out, and came into the city, and found things as he had said to them, and they prepared the Passover.
17 When it was evening he came with the twelve.
18 As they sat and were eating, Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, one of you will betray me—he who eats with me.”
19 They began to be sorrowful, and to ask him one by one, “Surely not I?” And another said, “Surely not I?”
20 He answered them, “It is one of the twelve, he who dips with me in the dish.
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Mark 14:1
"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."
Mark 14:2
"For they said, “Not during the feast, because there might be a riot among the people.”"
Mark 14:3
"While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard—very costly. She broke the jar and poured it over his head."
Mark 14:4
"But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, “Why has this ointment been wasted?"
Mark 14:5
"For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor.” So they grumbled against her."
Mark 14:6
"But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me."
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