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The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, According to St. Mark 1323

29 So you also when you shall see these things 5 For this ointment might have been sold for
come to pass, know ye that it is very nigh, even more than three hundred pence, and given to the
at the doors. poor. And they murmured against her.
30 Amen I say to you, that this generation 6 But Jesus said: Let her alone, why do you
shall not pass, until all these things be done. molest her? She hath wrought a good work upon
31 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my me.
word shall not pass away. 7 For the poor you have always with you: and
32 But of that day or hour no man knoweth, whensoever you will, you may do them good: but
neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but me you have not always.
the Father. 8 She hath done what she could: she is come
33 Take ye heed, watch and pray. For ye know beforehand to anoint my body for burial.
not when the time is. 9 Amen, I say to you, wheresoever this gospel
34 Even as a man who going into a far country, shall be preached in the whole world, that also
left his house; and gave authority to his servants which she hath done, shall be told for a memorial
over every work, and commanded the porter to of her.
watch. 10 And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went
35 Watch ye therefor, (for you know not when to the chief priests, to betray him to them.
the lord of the house cometh: at even, or at mid-
11 Who hearing it were glad; and they
night, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning,) promised him they would give him money. And
36 Lest coming on a sudden, he find you sleep- he sought how he might conveniently betray him.
ing.
12 Now on the first day of the unleavened
37 And what I say to you, I say to all: Watch. bread, when they sacrificed the pasch, the dis-
ciples say to him: Whither wilt thou that we go,
Chapter 14 and prepare for thee to eat the pasch?
13 And he sendeth two of his disciples, and
Now the feast of the pasch, and of the Azymes saith to them: Go ye into the city; and there
was after two days; and the chief priests and the shall meet you a man carrying a pitcher of water,
scribes sought how they might by some wile lay follow him;
hold on him, and kill him. 14 And whithersoever he shall go in, say to the
2 But they said: Not on the festival day, lest master of the house, The master saith, Where is
there should be a tumult among the people. my refectory, where I may eat the pasch with my
3 And when he was in Bethania, in the house disciples?
of Simon the leper, and was at meat, there came 15 And he will shew you a large dining room
a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of furnished; and there prepare ye for us.
precious spikenard: and breaking the alabaster 16 And his disciples went their way, and came
box, she poured it out upon his head. into the city; and they found as he had told
4 Now there were some that had indignation them, and they prepared the pasch.
within themselves, and said: Why was this waste 17 And when evening was come, he cometh
of the ointment made? with the twelve.