Reading for January 19th

Read Mark 14.1-9. 1-2 (Mt 26.2-5; Lk 22.1-2; Jn 11.47-53) The plot to kill Jesus.
Mark does not make explicit why the leaders seek Jesus' death.
Motives might include disruption of Temple function; Jesus' popularity; his besting them in public dispute; his condemnations of their behavior; his political threat and implicit challenge to Rome;
his messianic claim; or simply t hat events carry out the divine will.
In verses 3-9 (Mt 26.6-13; 7.36-50; Jn 12.1-8) The anointing woman.
In verse 3 the anointing is for burial (14.8); this woman succeeds where Jesus' female followers
will fail (16.1).
In verse 7 see Deut 15.11.
Jesus reminds his followers that their responsibilities to the poor will not cease.
In verse 9 although her story is told, her name (unlike the women of 16.1) is not;
see comment on 15.39.
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