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THE MESSAGE
Mark 14:11
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Christian Standard Bible®
And when they heard this, they were glad and promised to give him money. So he started looking for a good opportunity to betray him.
And when they heard this, they were glad and promised to give him money. So he started looking for a good opportunity to betray him.
King James Version (1611)
And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to giue him money. And he sought how he might conueniently betray him.
And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to giue him money. And he sought how he might conueniently betray him.
King James Version
And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.
And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.
English Standard Version
And when they heard it, they were glad and promised to give him money. And he sought an opportunity to betray him.
And when they heard it, they were glad and promised to give him money. And he sought an opportunity to betray him.
New American Standard Bible
They were delighted when they heard this, and promised to give him money. And he began seeking how to betray Him at an opportune time.
They were delighted when they heard this, and promised to give him money. And he began seeking how to betray Him at an opportune time.
New Century Version
These priests were pleased about this and promised to pay Judas money. So he watched for the best time to turn Jesus in.
These priests were pleased about this and promised to pay Judas money. So he watched for the best time to turn Jesus in.
Amplified Bible
When they heard this they were delighted, and promised to give him money. And he began looking for an opportune time to betray Jesus.
When they heard this they were delighted, and promised to give him money. And he began looking for an opportune time to betray Jesus.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They were glad when they heard this, and promised to give him money. And he began seeking how to betray Him at an opportune time.
They were glad when they heard this, and promised to give him money. And he began seeking how to betray Him at an opportune time.
Legacy Standard Bible
And when they heard this, they were glad and promised to give him money. And he began seeking how to betray Him at an opportune time.
And when they heard this, they were glad and promised to give him money. And he began seeking how to betray Him at an opportune time.
Berean Standard Bible
They were delighted to hear this, and they promised to give him money. So Judas began to look for an opportunity to hand Him over.
They were delighted to hear this, and they promised to give him money. So Judas began to look for an opportunity to hand Him over.
Contemporary English Version
They were glad to hear this, and they promised to pay him. So Judas started looking for a good chance to betray Jesus.
They were glad to hear this, and they promised to pay him. So Judas started looking for a good chance to betray Jesus.
Complete Jewish Bible
They were pleased to hear this and promised to give him money. And he began looking for a good opportunity to betray Yeshua.
They were pleased to hear this and promised to give him money. And he began looking for a good opportunity to betray Yeshua.
Darby Translation
and they, when they heard it, rejoiced, and promised him to give money. And he sought how he could opportunely deliver him up.
and they, when they heard it, rejoiced, and promised him to give money. And he sought how he could opportunely deliver him up.
Easy-to-Read Version
They were very happy about this, and they promised to pay him. So he waited for the best time to hand Jesus over to them.
They were very happy about this, and they promised to pay him. So he waited for the best time to hand Jesus over to them.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised that they woulde giue him monie: therefore he sought howe he might conueniently betraie him.
And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised that they woulde giue him monie: therefore he sought howe he might conueniently betraie him.
George Lamsa Translation
When they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. So he sought an opportunity to deliver him.
When they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. So he sought an opportunity to deliver him.
Good News Translation
They were pleased to hear what he had to say, and promised to give him money. So Judas started looking for a good chance to hand Jesus over to them.
They were pleased to hear what he had to say, and promised to give him money. So Judas started looking for a good chance to hand Jesus over to them.
Lexham English Bible
And when they heard this, they were delighted, and promised to give him money. And he began seeking how he could betray him conveniently.
And when they heard this, they were delighted, and promised to give him money. And he began seeking how he could betray him conveniently.
Literal Translation
And hearing, they rejoiced and promised to give him silver. And he sought how he might opportunely betray Him.
And hearing, they rejoiced and promised to give him silver. And he sought how he might opportunely betray Him.
American Standard Version
And they, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently deliver him unto them.
And they, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently deliver him unto them.
Bible in Basic English
And hearing what he said, they were glad, and gave him their word to make him a payment of money. And he took thought how he might best give him up to them.
And hearing what he said, they were glad, and gave him their word to make him a payment of money. And he took thought how he might best give him up to them.
Hebrew Names Version
They, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. He sought how he might conveniently deliver him.
They, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. He sought how he might conveniently deliver him.
International Standard Version
When they heard this, they were delighted and promised to give him money. So he began to look for a good opportunity to betray him.
When they heard this, they were delighted and promised to give him money. So he began to look for a good opportunity to betray him.
Etheridge Translation
and they when they had heard rejoiced, and promised silver to give him. And he sought to him opportunity to betray him.
and they when they had heard rejoiced, and promised silver to give him. And he sought to him opportunity to betray him.
Murdock Translation
11 And when they heard [fn] , they rejoiced; and they promised to give him money. And he sought for opportunity to betray him.
11 And when they heard [fn] , they rejoiced; and they promised to give him money. And he sought for opportunity to betray him.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
When they hearde that, they were glad, and promised that they woulde geue hym money. And he sought howe he myght conueniently betray hym.
When they hearde that, they were glad, and promised that they woulde geue hym money. And he sought howe he myght conueniently betray hym.
English Revised Version
And they, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently deliver him unto them.
And they, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently deliver him unto them.
World English Bible
They, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. He sought how he might conveniently deliver him.
They, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. He sought how he might conveniently deliver him.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And hearing it they were glad, and promised to give him mony. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.
And hearing it they were glad, and promised to give him mony. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.
Weymouth's New Testament
They gladly listened to his proposal, and promised to give him a sum of money. So he looked out for an opportunity to betray Him.
They gladly listened to his proposal, and promised to give him a sum of money. So he looked out for an opportunity to betray Him.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei herden, and ioyeden, and bihiyten to yyue hym money. And he souyt hou he schulde bitraye hym couenabli.
And thei herden, and ioyeden, and bihiyten to yyue hym money. And he souyt hou he schulde bitraye hym couenabli.
Update Bible Version
And they, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently deliver him [to them].
And they, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently deliver him [to them].
Webster's Bible Translation
And when they heard [it], they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.
And when they heard [it], they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.
New English Translation
When they heard this, they were delighted and promised to give him money. So Judas began looking for an opportunity to betray him.
When they heard this, they were delighted and promised to give him money. So Judas began looking for an opportunity to betray him.
New King James Version
And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. So he sought how he might conveniently betray Him.
And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. So he sought how he might conveniently betray Him.
New Living Translation
They were delighted when they heard why he had come, and they promised to give him money. So he began looking for an opportunity to betray Jesus.
They were delighted when they heard why he had come, and they promised to give him money. So he began looking for an opportunity to betray Jesus.
New Life Bible
When the leaders heard it, they were glad. They promised to give Judas money. Then he looked for a way to hand Jesus over.
When the leaders heard it, they were glad. They promised to give Judas money. Then he looked for a way to hand Jesus over.
New Revised Standard
When they heard it, they were greatly pleased, and promised to give him money. So he began to look for an opportunity to betray him.
When they heard it, they were greatly pleased, and promised to give him money. So he began to look for an opportunity to betray him.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now, when they heard, they rejoiced, and promised to give him, silver; and he was seeking how, at a favourable opportunity, he might, deliver him up.
Now, when they heard, they rejoiced, and promised to give him, silver; and he was seeking how, at a favourable opportunity, he might, deliver him up.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Who hearing it were glad: and they promised him they would give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.
Who hearing it were glad: and they promised him they would give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.
Revised Standard Version
And when they heard it they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought an opportunity to betray him.
And when they heard it they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought an opportunity to betray him.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
When they herde that they were gladde and promised yt they wolde geve him money. And he sought howe he myght conveniently betraye him.
When they herde that they were gladde and promised yt they wolde geve him money. And he sought howe he myght conveniently betraye him.
Young's Literal Translation
and having heard, they were glad, and promised to give him money, and he was seeking how, conveniently, he might deliver him up.
and having heard, they were glad, and promised to give him money, and he was seeking how, conveniently, he might deliver him up.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Whan they herde yt, they were glad, & promysed that they wolde geue him money. And he sought, how he might coueniently betraye him.
Whan they herde yt, they were glad, & promysed that they wolde geue him money. And he sought, how he might coueniently betraye him.
Mace New Testament (1729)
they were glad to hear him, and promis'd to give him money. upon which he contriv'd the most favourable occasion to betray him.
they were glad to hear him, and promis'd to give him money. upon which he contriv'd the most favourable occasion to betray him.
Simplified Cowboy Version
The scoundrels he talked to were tickled pink at the information Judas gave them about Jesus and they promised to reward him handsomely. They all concocted a plan to betray and capture Jesus.
The scoundrels he talked to were tickled pink at the information Judas gave them about Jesus and they promised to reward him handsomely. They all concocted a plan to betray and capture Jesus.
Contextual Overview
1In only two days the eight-day Festival of Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread would begin. The high priests and religion scholars were looking for a way they could seize Jesus by stealth and kill him. They agreed that it should not be done during Passover Week. "We don't want the crowds up in arms," they said. 3Jesus was at Bethany, a guest of Simon the Leper. While he was eating dinner, a woman came up carrying a bottle of very expensive perfume. Opening the bottle, she poured it on his head. Some of the guests became furious among themselves. "That's criminal! A sheer waste! This perfume could have been sold for well over a year's wages and handed out to the poor." They swelled up in anger, nearly bursting with indignation over her. 6But Jesus said, "Let her alone. Why are you giving her a hard time? She has just done something wonderfully significant for me. You will have the poor with you every day for the rest of your lives. Whenever you feel like it, you can do something for them. Not so with me. She did what she could when she could—she pre-anointed my body for burial. And you can be sure that wherever in the whole world the Message is preached, what she just did is going to be talked about admiringly." 10Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the cabal of high priests, determined to betray him. They couldn't believe their ears, and promised to pay him well. He started looking for just the right moment to hand him over.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
they were: Hosea 7:3, Luke 22:5
and promised: 1 Kings 21:20, 2 Kings 5:26, Proverbs 1:10-16, Proverbs 28:21, Proverbs 28:22, Matthew 26:15, 1 Timothy 6:10, 2 Peter 2:14, 2 Peter 2:15, Jude 1:11
he sought: Luke 22:5, Luke 22:6
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 23:23 - take knowledge Esther 5:14 - the thing Proverbs 17:23 - General Zechariah 11:12 - So Matthew 26:16 - he Matthew 27:3 - Judas Luke 22:3 - entered Luke 22:4 - went Romans 1:32 - have pleasure in them 2 Thessalonians 2:12 - but
Cross-References
Genesis 14:21
The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me back the people but keep all the plunder for yourself."
The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me back the people but keep all the plunder for yourself."
Deuteronomy 28:35
God will hit you with painful boils on your knees and legs and no healing or relief from head to foot.
God will hit you with painful boils on your knees and legs and no healing or relief from head to foot.
Deuteronomy 28:51
If you listen obediently to the Voice of God , your God, and heartily obey all his commandments that I command you today, God , your God, will place you on high, high above all the nations of the world. All these blessings will come down on you and spread out beyond you because you have responded to the Voice of God , your God: God 's blessing inside the city, God 's blessing in the country; God 's blessing on your children, the crops of your land, the young of your livestock, the calves of your herds, the lambs of your flocks. God 's blessing on your basket and bread bowl; God 's blessing in your coming in, God 's blessing in your going out. God will defeat your enemies who attack you. They'll come at you on one road and run away on seven roads. God will order a blessing on your barns and workplaces; he'll bless you in the land that God , your God, is giving you. God will form you as a people holy to him, just as he promised you, if you keep the commandments of God , your God, and live the way he has shown you. All the peoples on Earth will see you living under the Name of God and hold you in respectful awe. God will lavish you with good things: children from your womb, offspring from your animals, and crops from your land, the land that God promised your ancestors that he would give you. God will throw open the doors of his sky vaults and pour rain on your land on schedule and bless the work you take in hand. You will lend to many nations but you yourself won't have to take out a loan. God will make you the head, not the tail; you'll always be the top dog, never the bottom dog, as you obediently listen to and diligently keep the commands of God , your God, that I am commanding you today. Don't swerve an inch to the right or left from the words that I command you today by going off following and worshiping other gods. Here's what will happen if you don't obediently listen to the Voice of God , your God, and diligently keep all the commandments and guidelines that I'm commanding you today. All these curses will come down hard on you: God 's curse in the city, God 's curse in the country; God 's curse on your basket and bread bowl; God 's curse on your children, the crops of your land, the young of your livestock, the calves of your herds, the lambs of your flocks. God 's curse in your coming in, God 's curse in your going out. God will send The Curse, The Confusion, The Contrariness down on everything you try to do until you've been destroyed and there's nothing left of you—all because of your evil pursuits that led you to abandon me. God will infect you with The Disease, wiping you right off the land that you're going in to possess. God will set consumption and fever and rash and seizures and dehydration and blight and jaundice on you. They'll hunt you down until they kill you. The sky over your head will become an iron roof, the ground under your feet, a slab of concrete. From out of the skies God will rain ash and dust down on you until you suffocate. God will defeat you by enemy attack. You'll come at your enemies on one road and run away on seven roads. All the kingdoms of Earth will see you as a horror. Carrion birds and animals will boldly feast on your dead body with no one to chase them away. God will hit you hard with the boils of Egypt, hemorrhoids, scabs, and an incurable itch. He'll make you go crazy and blind and senile. You'll grope around in the middle of the day like a blind person feeling his way through a lifetime of darkness; you'll never get to where you're going. Not a day will go by that you're not abused and robbed. And no one is going to help you. You'll get engaged to a woman and another man will take her for his mistress; you'll build a house and never live in it; you'll plant a garden and never eat so much as a carrot; you'll watch your ox get butchered and not get a single steak from it; your donkey will be stolen from in front of you and you'll never see it again; your sheep will be sent off to your enemies and no one will lift a hand to help you. Your sons and daughters will be shipped off to foreigners; you'll wear your eyes out looking vainly for them, helpless to do a thing. Your crops and everything you work for will be eaten and used by foreigners; you'll spend the rest of your lives abused and knocked around. What you see will drive you crazy. God will hit you with painful boils on your knees and legs and no healing or relief from head to foot. God will lead you and the king you set over you to a country neither you nor your ancestors have heard of; there you'll worship other gods, no-gods of wood and stone. Among all the peoples where God will take you, you'll be treated as a lesson or a proverb—a horror! You'll plant sacks and sacks of seed in the field but get almost nothing—the grasshoppers will devour it. You'll plant and hoe and prune vineyards but won't drink or put up any wine—the worms will devour them. You'll have groves of olive trees everywhere, but you'll have no oil to rub on your face or hands—the olives will have fallen off. You'll have sons and daughters but they won't be yours for long—they'll go off to captivity. Locusts will take over all your trees and crops. The foreigner who lives among you will climb the ladder, higher and higher, while you go deeper and deeper into the hole. He'll lend to you; you won't lend to him. He'll be the head; you'll be the tail. All these curses are going to come on you. They're going to hunt you down and get you until there's nothing left of you because you didn't obediently listen to the Voice of God , your God, and diligently keep his commandments and guidelines that I commanded you. The curses will serve as signposts, warnings to your children ever after. Because you didn't serve God , your God, out of the joy and goodness of your heart in the great abundance, you'll have to serve your enemies whom God will send against you. Life will be famine and drought, rags and wretchedness; then he'll put an iron yoke on your neck until he's destroyed you. Yes, God will raise up a faraway nation against you, swooping down on you like an eagle, a nation whose language you can't understand, a mean-faced people, cruel to grandmothers and babies alike. They'll ravage the young of your animals and the crops from your fields until you're destroyed. They'll leave nothing behind: no grain, no wine, no oil, no calves, no lambs—and finally, no you. They'll lay siege to you while you're huddled behind your town gates. They'll knock those high, proud walls flat, those walls behind which you felt so safe. They'll lay siege to your fortified cities all over the country, this country that God , your God, has given you. And you'll end up cannibalizing your own sons and daughters that God , your God, has given you. When the suffering from the siege gets extreme, you're going to eat your own babies. The most gentle and caring man among you will turn hard, his eye evil, against his own brother, his cherished wife, and even the rest of his children who are still alive, refusing to share with them a scrap of meat from the cannibal child-stew he is eating. He's lost everything, even his humanity, in the suffering of the siege that your enemy mounts against your fortified towns. And the most gentle and caring woman among you, a woman who wouldn't step on a wildflower, will turn hard, her eye evil, against her cherished husband, against her son, against her daughter, against even the afterbirth of her newborn infants; she plans to eat them in secret—she does eat them!—because she has lost everything, even her humanity, in the suffering of the siege that your enemy mounts against your fortified towns. If you don't diligently keep all the words of this Revelation written in this book, living in holy awe before This Name glorious and terrible, God , your God, then God will pound you with catastrophes, you and your children, huge interminable catastrophes, hideous interminable illnesses. He'll bring back and stick you with every old Egyptian malady that once terrorized you. And yes, every disease and catastrophe imaginable—things not even written in the Book of this Revelation— God will bring on you until you're destroyed. Because you didn't listen obediently to the Voice of God , your God, you'll be left with a few pitiful stragglers in place of the dazzling stars-in-the-heavens multitude you had become. And this is how things will end up: Just as God once enjoyed you, took pleasure in making life good for you, giving you many children, so God will enjoy getting rid of you, clearing you off the Earth. He'll weed you out of the very soil that you are entering in to possess. He'll scatter you to the four winds, from one end of the Earth to the other. You'll worship all kinds of other gods, gods neither you nor your parents ever heard of, wood and stone no-gods. But you won't find a home there, you'll not be able to settle down. God will give you a restless heart, longing eyes, a homesick soul. You will live in constant jeopardy, terrified of every shadow, never knowing what you'll meet around the next corner. In the morning you'll say, "I wish it were evening." In the evening you'll say, "I wish it were morning." Afraid, terrorized at what's coming next, afraid of the unknown, because of the sights you've witnessed. God will ship you back to Egypt by a road I promised you'd never see again. There you'll offer yourselves for sale, both men and women, as slaves to your enemies. And not a buyer to be found.
If you listen obediently to the Voice of God , your God, and heartily obey all his commandments that I command you today, God , your God, will place you on high, high above all the nations of the world. All these blessings will come down on you and spread out beyond you because you have responded to the Voice of God , your God: God 's blessing inside the city, God 's blessing in the country; God 's blessing on your children, the crops of your land, the young of your livestock, the calves of your herds, the lambs of your flocks. God 's blessing on your basket and bread bowl; God 's blessing in your coming in, God 's blessing in your going out. God will defeat your enemies who attack you. They'll come at you on one road and run away on seven roads. God will order a blessing on your barns and workplaces; he'll bless you in the land that God , your God, is giving you. God will form you as a people holy to him, just as he promised you, if you keep the commandments of God , your God, and live the way he has shown you. All the peoples on Earth will see you living under the Name of God and hold you in respectful awe. God will lavish you with good things: children from your womb, offspring from your animals, and crops from your land, the land that God promised your ancestors that he would give you. God will throw open the doors of his sky vaults and pour rain on your land on schedule and bless the work you take in hand. You will lend to many nations but you yourself won't have to take out a loan. God will make you the head, not the tail; you'll always be the top dog, never the bottom dog, as you obediently listen to and diligently keep the commands of God , your God, that I am commanding you today. Don't swerve an inch to the right or left from the words that I command you today by going off following and worshiping other gods. Here's what will happen if you don't obediently listen to the Voice of God , your God, and diligently keep all the commandments and guidelines that I'm commanding you today. All these curses will come down hard on you: God 's curse in the city, God 's curse in the country; God 's curse on your basket and bread bowl; God 's curse on your children, the crops of your land, the young of your livestock, the calves of your herds, the lambs of your flocks. God 's curse in your coming in, God 's curse in your going out. God will send The Curse, The Confusion, The Contrariness down on everything you try to do until you've been destroyed and there's nothing left of you—all because of your evil pursuits that led you to abandon me. God will infect you with The Disease, wiping you right off the land that you're going in to possess. God will set consumption and fever and rash and seizures and dehydration and blight and jaundice on you. They'll hunt you down until they kill you. The sky over your head will become an iron roof, the ground under your feet, a slab of concrete. From out of the skies God will rain ash and dust down on you until you suffocate. God will defeat you by enemy attack. You'll come at your enemies on one road and run away on seven roads. All the kingdoms of Earth will see you as a horror. Carrion birds and animals will boldly feast on your dead body with no one to chase them away. God will hit you hard with the boils of Egypt, hemorrhoids, scabs, and an incurable itch. He'll make you go crazy and blind and senile. You'll grope around in the middle of the day like a blind person feeling his way through a lifetime of darkness; you'll never get to where you're going. Not a day will go by that you're not abused and robbed. And no one is going to help you. You'll get engaged to a woman and another man will take her for his mistress; you'll build a house and never live in it; you'll plant a garden and never eat so much as a carrot; you'll watch your ox get butchered and not get a single steak from it; your donkey will be stolen from in front of you and you'll never see it again; your sheep will be sent off to your enemies and no one will lift a hand to help you. Your sons and daughters will be shipped off to foreigners; you'll wear your eyes out looking vainly for them, helpless to do a thing. Your crops and everything you work for will be eaten and used by foreigners; you'll spend the rest of your lives abused and knocked around. What you see will drive you crazy. God will hit you with painful boils on your knees and legs and no healing or relief from head to foot. God will lead you and the king you set over you to a country neither you nor your ancestors have heard of; there you'll worship other gods, no-gods of wood and stone. Among all the peoples where God will take you, you'll be treated as a lesson or a proverb—a horror! You'll plant sacks and sacks of seed in the field but get almost nothing—the grasshoppers will devour it. You'll plant and hoe and prune vineyards but won't drink or put up any wine—the worms will devour them. You'll have groves of olive trees everywhere, but you'll have no oil to rub on your face or hands—the olives will have fallen off. You'll have sons and daughters but they won't be yours for long—they'll go off to captivity. Locusts will take over all your trees and crops. The foreigner who lives among you will climb the ladder, higher and higher, while you go deeper and deeper into the hole. He'll lend to you; you won't lend to him. He'll be the head; you'll be the tail. All these curses are going to come on you. They're going to hunt you down and get you until there's nothing left of you because you didn't obediently listen to the Voice of God , your God, and diligently keep his commandments and guidelines that I commanded you. The curses will serve as signposts, warnings to your children ever after. Because you didn't serve God , your God, out of the joy and goodness of your heart in the great abundance, you'll have to serve your enemies whom God will send against you. Life will be famine and drought, rags and wretchedness; then he'll put an iron yoke on your neck until he's destroyed you. Yes, God will raise up a faraway nation against you, swooping down on you like an eagle, a nation whose language you can't understand, a mean-faced people, cruel to grandmothers and babies alike. They'll ravage the young of your animals and the crops from your fields until you're destroyed. They'll leave nothing behind: no grain, no wine, no oil, no calves, no lambs—and finally, no you. They'll lay siege to you while you're huddled behind your town gates. They'll knock those high, proud walls flat, those walls behind which you felt so safe. They'll lay siege to your fortified cities all over the country, this country that God , your God, has given you. And you'll end up cannibalizing your own sons and daughters that God , your God, has given you. When the suffering from the siege gets extreme, you're going to eat your own babies. The most gentle and caring man among you will turn hard, his eye evil, against his own brother, his cherished wife, and even the rest of his children who are still alive, refusing to share with them a scrap of meat from the cannibal child-stew he is eating. He's lost everything, even his humanity, in the suffering of the siege that your enemy mounts against your fortified towns. And the most gentle and caring woman among you, a woman who wouldn't step on a wildflower, will turn hard, her eye evil, against her cherished husband, against her son, against her daughter, against even the afterbirth of her newborn infants; she plans to eat them in secret—she does eat them!—because she has lost everything, even her humanity, in the suffering of the siege that your enemy mounts against your fortified towns. If you don't diligently keep all the words of this Revelation written in this book, living in holy awe before This Name glorious and terrible, God , your God, then God will pound you with catastrophes, you and your children, huge interminable catastrophes, hideous interminable illnesses. He'll bring back and stick you with every old Egyptian malady that once terrorized you. And yes, every disease and catastrophe imaginable—things not even written in the Book of this Revelation— God will bring on you until you're destroyed. Because you didn't listen obediently to the Voice of God , your God, you'll be left with a few pitiful stragglers in place of the dazzling stars-in-the-heavens multitude you had become. And this is how things will end up: Just as God once enjoyed you, took pleasure in making life good for you, giving you many children, so God will enjoy getting rid of you, clearing you off the Earth. He'll weed you out of the very soil that you are entering in to possess. He'll scatter you to the four winds, from one end of the Earth to the other. You'll worship all kinds of other gods, gods neither you nor your parents ever heard of, wood and stone no-gods. But you won't find a home there, you'll not be able to settle down. God will give you a restless heart, longing eyes, a homesick soul. You will live in constant jeopardy, terrified of every shadow, never knowing what you'll meet around the next corner. In the morning you'll say, "I wish it were evening." In the evening you'll say, "I wish it were morning." Afraid, terrorized at what's coming next, afraid of the unknown, because of the sights you've witnessed. God will ship you back to Egypt by a road I promised you'd never see again. There you'll offer yourselves for sale, both men and women, as slaves to your enemies. And not a buyer to be found.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And when they heard it, they were glad,.... That such an opportunity offered, and from such a quarter, by one of his own disciples; so that it might be done more secretly and effectually, and with less blame to themselves:
and promised to give him money; any sum he should ask; and what was agreed upon were thirty pieces, or shekels of silver; and so the Ethiopic version here, instead of money, reads, "thirty pieces of silver"; :-.
And he sought how he might conveniently betray him; after this promise, and upon this agreement: henceforward he sought the most fitting opportunity, and the best season of betraying his master into the hands of these men, when he was alone, and the multitude absent, and there was no danger of a tumult, or a rescue;
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Barnes' Notes on the Bible
See this passage explained in the notes at Matthew 26:1-16.
Mark 14:1
And of unleavened bread - So called because at that feast no other bread was used but that which had been made without leaven or yeast.
By craft - By subtlety (Matthew); that is, by some secret plan that would secure possession of him without exciting the opposition of the people.
Mark 14:3
Ointment - This word does not convey quite the proper meaning. This was a perfume. It was used only to give a pleasant odor, and was liquid.
Of spikenard - The “nard,” from which this perfume was made, is a plant of the East Indies, with a small, slender stalk, and a heavy, thick root. The best perfume is obtained from the root, though the stalk and fruit are used for that purpose.
And she brake the box - This may mean no more than that she broke the “seal” of the box, so that it could be poured out. Boxes of perfumes are often sealed or made fast with wax, to prevent the perfume from escaping. It was not likely that she would break the box itself when it was unnecessary, and when the unguent, being liquid, would have been wasted; nor from a broken box or vial could she easily have “poured it” on his head.
Mark 14:5
Three hundred pence - About forty dollars (or 9 British pounds). See the notes at Matthew 26:7.
Mark 14:8
She hath done what she could - She has showed the highest attachment in her power; and it was, as it is now, a sufficient argument against there being any “real” waste, that it was done for the honor of Christ. See this passage explained in the notes at Matthew 26:1-16.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Mark 14:11. They were glad — The joy that arises from the opportunity of murdering an innocent person must be completely infernal.
