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Mark 14:65 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: King James Version
" 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. "
Mark 14:65
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63 Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What need we any further witnesses?
64 Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death.
65 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.
66 And as Peter was beneath in the palace, there cometh one of the maids of the high priest:
67 And when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked upon him, and said, And thou also wast with Jesus of Nazareth.
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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."
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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