Mark 14:63 — Meaning and Application

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“Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What need we any further witnesses?”

Mark 14:63

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But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?

And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.

Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What need we any further witnesses?

Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death.

And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the servants did strike him with the palms of their hands.

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Mark 14:1

"After two days was {the feast of} the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put {him} to death."

Mark 14:2

"But they said, Not on the feast {day}, lest there be an uproar of the people."

Mark 14:3

"And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured {it} on his head. {spikenard: or, pure nard, or, liquid nard}"

Mark 14:4

"And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?"

Mark 14:5

"For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her."

Mark 14:6

"And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me."

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