Mark

Mark 14:1–2

Human conspiracy cannot disrupt God’s redemptive timing.

Mark 14:1–2 (WEB)

1 It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.

2 For they said, “Not during the feast, because there might be a riot among the people.”

Central Idea

Human conspiracy cannot disrupt God’s redemptive timing.

Authorial Intent

To show that the leaders’ conspiracy unfolds within God’s sovereign redemptive plan at Passover.

Chapter: Mark 14

The Son of Man Handed Over: Anointing, Supper, Gethsemane, Betrayal, Trial, and Denial

Jesus willingly enters betrayal, abandonment, anguish, false trial, and condemnation as the Scripture-fulfilling Son of Man whose body and blood establish the covenant for many, while human hearts are exposed through devotion, treachery, weakness, denial, and unbelief.