July 13th, 2024

This Sunday’s title is the ‘Eighth Sunday after Pentecost’ [and the Gospel reading follows last week’s reading, this week’s reading being Mark 6:14-29; and this progression will continue for a while]. And within the writings of this website, we are continuing our progression in that same way, within that same Gospel account, but we are significantly later in the book. With this writing we are on chapter fourteen. And you might say that this is the beginning of the end.

If you are familiar with the writings of this website, you would guess that the following text is translated in what may be termed a ‘somewhat-literal translation’, and you would be right. But even if you are familiar with these writings, you may find it helpful to look in other translations and/or a good study bible to increase your comprehension of the text. What follows is Mark 14:1-11:

Now it was the Passover and the unleavened, after two days. And they were seeking, the archpriests and the scribes, how him, in trickery, having seized, they should kill. For they were saying, “Not in the feast, lest there will be a riot of the people.”

And being, he, in Bethany, in the house of Simon, the leper, reclining, he; she came, a woman, having an alabaster vial of ointment, of nard, of pure, of costly; having shattered the alabaster vial, she poured over, of him, the head. Now there were some, being angry to themselves: “Into what, the waste, this, of the ointment, has happened? For it was possible, this, the ointment, to be sold, over denarii, three hundred, and to be given to the poor.” And they were snorting at her.

Now the Jesus said, “Leave her; why to her, troubles, you cause? A good work she worked in me. For always the poor, you have with yourselves, and whenever you want, you are able, to them, good, to do; now me, not always, you have. What she had, she did; she anticipated to anoint the body of me, into the burial. Now amen, I am saying to you, wherever it is proclaimed, the gospel, into all the world, also what she did, this one, will be spoken into a remembrance of her.”

And Judas Iscariot, the one of the twelve, he came out toward the archpriests, that him, he might betray to them. Now the ones having heard, they rejoiced, and they promised him, silver, to give. And he was seeking how him, well-timed, he should betray.

Did you know that snorting is a very close thing to being angry? There are a lot of ways to state anger. And if there a lot of words for something, it is probably an important or well-used topic. And there are a lot of ways God could state his anger over sin.
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Now there are certainly a lot of words for good news. And it was mentioned before that in the above text is the last time the word ‘gospel’ is used within this account (although the longer ending also contains the word). But that will be covered in the future, at the end of the church year (God willing).