Key Verse Spotlight
Mark 14:38 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” "
Mark 14:38
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36 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.”
37 He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn’t you watch one hour?
38 Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
39 Again he went away and prayed, saying the same words.
40 Again he returned and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy; and they didn’t know what to answer him.
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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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