The Chosen Key Word in this Chapter is “Sorrowful” it comes from the Greek Word “perilypos” which means “deeply grieved, sorrowful to the point of death.”
One meal, one betrayal, and a young man who runs away naked into the night. Welcome to Bible Life Basics Chapter Reviews, I am Chris and this is Mark 14.
While chief priests and scribes plot to kill Jesus, a woman anoints His head with expensive ointment at Bethany, and when some object to the waste, Jesus defends her, saying she has anointed His body beforehand for burial, and that her act will be told wherever the gospel is preached. Judas Iscariot goes to the chief priests to betray Jesus for money. At the Passover meal, Jesus predicts one of the twelve will betray Him, then institutes the Lord’s Supper, breaking bread as His body and sharing the cup as “my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.” He also predicts that all the disciples will fall away, and that Peter specifically will deny Him three times before the rooster crows twice, though Peter insists he never would. In the garden of Gethsemane, Jesus tells Peter, James, and John, “My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death,” the Greek word for this deep grief being “perilypos.” He falls to the ground praying, “Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt,” while His disciples repeatedly fall asleep instead of watching with Him. Judas arrives with an armed crowd and identifies Jesus with a kiss. As Jesus is arrested, a young man following Him, wearing only a linen cloth, flees naked when they try to seize him too, a small, vivid, unique detail that many believe reflects Mark’s own personal memory of that night. Jesus is brought before the high priest and the whole council, where false witnesses testify inconsistently against Him. When the high priest asks directly if He is the Christ, the Son of the Blessed, Jesus answers plainly, “I am,” and is condemned for blasphemy. Meanwhile, in the courtyard below, Peter denies knowing Jesus three times, exactly as predicted, and when the rooster crows the second time, he remembers Jesus’ words and weeps.
The small detail of the young man fleeing naked into the darkness captures the sheer panic and confusion of that arrest better than almost anything else in the account. Even in Jesus’ most controlled, purposeful moment, walking deliberately toward the cross, everyone around Him scattered in fear.
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