Lesson # 22 - Book of Mark

(Read Mk. 14:1-42)

Introduction: This fourteenth chapter of Mark, begins “two days” prior to the Passover feast, in the week Jesus was crucified. There were people who wanted to kill Him, but wanted to avoid what might cause an “uproar of the people” on this feast day. So, as before, they had the evil desire, but were afraid to do what they really wanted to do.

Being in Bethany, near Jerusalem, in the house of a man named Simon, who was a Leper, a woman came with an “alabaster box” of precious ointment. She poured it on Jesus’s head. Some of them considered this use a “waste.” and the woman was criticized. However, Jesus told them that this woman would be remembered for her deed (vs. 3-9) wherever the gospel is preached. She had performed an act of kindness, a “good work,” He pointed out that they would always have some poor among them but would not always have Him! Perhaps there is a lesson here that we might ponder. We need to be sympathetic toward the “poor” that are such because of circumstances beyond their control, but we need to put spiritual matters above the material. Also, we need to consider if we are REALLY helping people, or are we perpetuating a lifestyle that is repugnant to the Lord.

Points to consider:

1. Judas Iscariot went unto the priest to betray Jesus (vs. 10-11). When they heard that one of the disciples would betray Jesus, they were “glad.” They promised to give him money. A way was sought how Judas might conveniently “betray” Him .

2. Jesus and His disciples planned to keep the Passover (vs. 12-21). An unusual way was employed of finding and identifying a man who would allow them to take the Passover in His “guest chamber” . The Disciples were told that would meet a man “bearing a pitcher of water” and that they should follow him home and make the request. They prepared for the feast, and came together to accomplish what was required.

3. While eating the Passover, Jesus institutes the Lord’s Supper (vs. 22-26) and explains what it means. When they have finished, they sing a hymn and go out.

4. Jesus informs the disciples of what was ahead that “night” (vs. 27-31). However, they were unwilling to accept what He said about their conduct. Peter the outspoken one, but so “said they all.”

5. The experience in the Garden of Gethsemane (Vs. 32-42). He was heavy with sorrow, praying to the Father, nevertheless,that the Father’s will be done. He found the disciples sleeping and asked if they could not WATCH one hour?

Questions:

1. What was Jesus and the disciples going to do in “two days” and what was the desire of the chief priest and scribes (Mk. 14: 1-2)?

2. Where were they when the woman “poured” the ointment on Jesus ?(vs. 3-9)

3. What were the different views about the act of the woman by disciples and by Jesus?

4. How did the chief priest feel about Judas’s offer to “betray” Jesus ? (vs. 10-11)

5. How did Jesus and the disciples “prepare” for the Passover? (vs. 12-17)

6. When they were eating, what did Jesus say “one” would do" ? (Vs. 18-21)

7. What did Jesus take and do while they were eating ? (Vs. 22-25)

8. What did they do before “they went out into the mount of Olives”?

9. What did Jesus say would happen that “night” ? (vs. 27-31)

10. What occurred in Gethsemane ? (vs. 32-42)