19 Facts About Mark 14

Mark 14 is the fourteenth chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.

Mark 14 poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial.

Mark 14 then says that Judas looked for the right time to betray Jesus.

Mark 14 says this is on the first day of the Feast and the day the Jews sacrificed the Passover lamb.

Either Mark 14 is using a non-Jewish reckoning of time or is using his method of double time chronology, such as 1:32, where two temporally separated events are sandwiched together.

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Mark 14 tells two unnamed disciples to go to the "city": although Mark does not state which city, it was clearly Jerusalem, about two miles from Bethany, as after the meal they go to the Mount of Olives.

Mark 14 only has the straightforward, unexplained, eucharistic section sandwiched between two predictions of betrayal.

Mark 14 asks God to grant him a reprieve from what he is about to undergo.

Mark 14 goes back and finds the three asleep and asks them why they could not even stay awake an hour and tells them to pray to avoid "temptation".

Mark 14 goes back and asks God the same thing, then returns to find them asleep again.

Judas comes and kisses Jesus, which Mark 14 says was a prearranged sign between Judas and the others.

All the other Gospels, but not Mark 14, have Jesus telling his disciples to stop resisting his arrest.

Mark 14 then relates that there was a young man who was a follower of Jesus, who was wearing "nothing but a linen garment", was seized by the crowd and left his clothes behind and fled away naked.

Mark 14 could be a metaphor for the disciples, who are now naked in the world after abandoning Jesus.

German theologian Paul Schanz suggested that Mark 14 included this incident out of "a desire to exhibit in a concrete instance the danger of the situation, and the ferocity of the enemies of Jesus".

Mark 14 argues that Mark might be trying to increase the perception of Jewish involvement in Jesus' death and lessen the responsibility of Rome.

Mark 14 says that the witnesses did not agree with each other.

Mark 14 gives a short defense and a different less direct declaration of being the messiah in John.

Mark 14 denies knowing Jesus a third time as he hears the second crowing of a rooster.