Week 1003 · about 45 minutes
Mark 14
Mark 14 · Memory verse Mark 14:27
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Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a small lamp
Hold a small lamp. Read Mark 14 in about four minutes, stopping at Mark 14:27: “Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Mark 14?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Mark 14 is a real chapter from the New Testament. It starts, “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.” That is not a motto invented for a poster. It is the first sentence a family hears when this page is opened at night.
Keep going a little further. The chapter also says, “He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn’t you watch one hour?” Mark 14 opens with these words: “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…” The line to keep is Mark 14:27: “Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’” Carry the word “jesus” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Mark 14:27: “Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Mark 14? Then try this: Read “Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will…” once more. What does it show you about God? You do not have to finish every verse. You can close the book after the memory verse and still have read the Bible together.
Group game
Walk the room as if you are moving through Mark 14. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Mark 14:27. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Mark 14 and write Mark 14:27 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Mark 14:27
“Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Mark 14. Help us remember Mark 14:27 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.