New English Translation

Mark 14:7-14 New English Translation (NET)

7. For you will always have the poor with you, and you can do good for them whenever you want. But you will not always have me!

8. She did what she could. She anointed my body beforehand for burial.

9. I tell you the truth, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”

10. Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Jesus into their hands.

11. When they heard this, they were delighted and promised to give him money. So Judas began looking for an opportunity to betray him.

12. Now on the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb is sacrificed, Jesus’ disciples said to him, “Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?”

13. He sent two of his disciples and told them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him.

14. Wherever he enters, tell the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher says, “Where is my guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?”’