Mark Chapter 14

1. The chief priests and the scribes were anxious to arrest Jesus and to kill him. They wanted to be careful to choose the right timing of their event. It seems they had no fear of God, but they did fear whom?

2. It is Passover time. There are many people in Jerusalem to celebrate both Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Prior to the Passover Feast Jesus and some of His disciples met in a man’s home where Mary poured an expensive ointment on Jesus’ head. Whose house did they meet in?

3. The disciples were not being rude to Mary, they genuinely thought she had her priorities mixed up. They thought she was being wasteful. Jesus said that He knew her reason for doing this. What did He say was her reason, according to verse 8?

4. The religious leaders wanted to arrest Jesus when He was not being followed by a crowd of people. They accepted Judas’ offer of betrayal to help them find Him. The Bible says that they offered to pay Judas some money and they expressed what emotion about this deal?

5. The Passover Feast was a remembrance festival of the angel of death passing over the Israelites’ doors of their homes and not harming their first-born sons; while the Egyptians’ families watched in horror as their sons died. What animal was sacrificed for this important feast?

6. Jesus had apparently made arrangements with a man where He could celebrate the Passover with His disciples in secret. Jesus had some important things He wanted to convey to His disciples before His death. It clearly states that Judas was there with them. How did Jesus reveal who the betrayer was? Do you think the other 11 disciples understood what was going on? Maybe so, because Judas probably left at this point.

“Everything eaten at the Passover meal had a symbolic meaning. The bitter herbs recalled the bitterness of slavery; the salt water remembered the tears shed under Egypt’s oppression. The main course of the meal – a lamb freshly sacrificed for that particular household…[was the symbol of] the sin-bearing sacrifice that allowed the judgment of God to pass over the household that believed.” [Guzik]

7. Jesus instituted the Lord’s Supper at this Passover Celebration. What did He give them to eat and to drink and what did He say they represented? Jesus was about to institute a new covenant between God and men. He was going to be the sacrificial lamb whose blood was spilt out for our sin.

8. Jesus has not yet celebrated another Passover Feast, but He will one day. Where will that event take place?

9. Jesus told the disciples that they would ALL disappear when He was arrested. Even though Peter was sure he would never do such a thing, what did he do just as Jesus said he would?

10. Jesus went to the garden of Gethsemane to pray. What two major events happened there?

11. The men who came to arrest Jesus came with weapons, what were they?

12. In verse 50 it states that they all left him and fled. Who fled?

13. There was a young man who was brave enough to follow closely behind Jesus. What happened to him when the guards went to grab ahold of him?

14. The last verses of the chapter describe the words of Peter who denied being a follower of Jesus. Think about the fact that much of what Mark wrote was relayed to him by Peter. How did Peter feel about his actions that day?