Mark 14:1-11
To Prepare For My Burial

1. Do you have a treasure which you are cherishing?
( ) yes ( ) no

2. What were the chief priests and the teachers of the law preparing?
To kill Jesus after or before.
3. What would you feel if you had to die on the cross after two days?

4. What was Jesus doing?
14:3
Eating at the house of Simon leper.
5. What happened during the meal?
14:3
Matthew: 2days before
Mark: 2days before
John: 6days before - Mary
Luke: middle of ministry – a very sinful woman

6. Discuss; an alabaster jar – alabastron land- place in Egypt
Made of pure nard
She broke the jar.
Poured the perfume on his head. Sign of obedience and submission.
Women have their own perfume jars. Pouring on their husband’s foot at the first day of marriage.

7. Why was this woman ( Mary ) so thankful to Jesus?
John chap.11 Jesus raised her brother from the dead.

8. What did some of those present criticize her act?
14:4, 5 $40,000 - $50,000.

9. What is your opinion about her act?

10. What did they miss to see when they understood her action through the money?
Disciples were blind to see her heart.
Money is not everything.
11. What did Jesus see from her action? How did Jesus accept it?
14:6, 7, 8
Jesus understood through her heart. 100% devotion.
Same with widow’s two pennies.
Jesus did not calculate money.
12. Who else served Jesus when he died?
1) Joseph Arimathea
2) Simon of cyrene
3) Mary-alabaster jar

13. How did Jesus sublime her alabaster jar in the history of the Gospel?
14:9 There are many alabaster jars. But Mary’s alabaster jar became perpetual.

14. What did Judas Iscariot provide a solution to the chief priests?

15. How much are you thankful for your life of resurrection?
Are you thankful enough to bring your alabaster jar to honor Jesus?