🎺 Mark 14

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.