Mk14:1-21

• v1: 2 days away from Passover and the Feast (of Unleavened Bread)
• Feast on Thursday night, which is beginning of Passover
• vv1-2: the chief priests and the teachers of law
• looking for a way to
• arrest Jesus and
  
• kill him
• But not during the Feast
• or the people may riot
• So postponed to after the Feast
• Jesus was arrested on Thursday night
• tried before the Sanhedrin on the same night
• tried before Pilate Friday very early in the morning (15:1)
  
• crucified Friday morning around 9 am (15:25)
  
• died 6 hours later (15:33)
• Buried Friday night (15:42, Mt27:57)
  
• the day before the Sabbath
• Rose to live Sunday
• after Sabbath (16:1)
  
• first day of the week (16:2)
• Jesus Anointed by the woman (Mary, see Jn 12)
  
• v8: she did what she could
• v8b: to prepare for Jesus' burial
• in memory of her the story will be told wherever the gospel is preached in the world (v9)
  
• v10: Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus
• Lord's Supper
• first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Thursday)
  
• customary to sacrifice the Passover lamb
• the place
• follow someone in the city who's carrying a jar of water
• ask the owner where is 'my guest room'
• it'd be a large upper room, furnished and ready
• Jesus points out one of the Twelve will betray him
• one who dips bread into the bowl with me
• it'd be better for him if he had not been born