I'm back with another scripture passage for meditation. Please reply with your prayers and reflections on this passage.

May Christ shower His blessings on you all.


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Mark 14:43-15:1 (Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition.)


Mark 14: 43And while he was yet speaking, cometh Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve: and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and the scribes and the ancients.

44And he that betrayed him, had given them a sign, saying: Whomsoever I shall kiss, that is he; lay hold on him, and lead him away carefully.

45And when he was come, immediately going up to him, he saith: Hail, Rabbi; and he kissed him.

46But they laid hands on him, and held him.

47An one of them that stood by, drawing a sword, struck a servant of the chief priest, and cut off his ear.

48And Jesus answering, said to them: Are you come out as to a robber, with swords and staves to apprehend me?

49I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you did not lay hands on me. But that the scriptures may be fulfilled.

50Then his disciples leaving him, all fled away.

51And a certain young man followed him, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and they laid hold on him.

52But he, casting off the linen cloth, fled from them naked.

53And they brought Jesus to the high priest; and all the priests and the scribes and the ancients assembled together.

54And Peter followed him from afar off, even into the court of the high priest; and he sat with the servants at the fire, and warmed himself.

55And the chief priests and all the council sought for evidence against Jesus, that they might put him to death, and found none.

56For many bore false witness against him, and their evidences were not agreeing.

57And some rising up, bore false witness against him, saying:

58We heard him say, I will destroy this temple made with hands, and within three days I will build another not made with hands.

59And their witness did not agree.

60And the high priest rising up in the midst, asked Jesus, saying: Answerest thou nothing to the things that are laid to thy charge by these men?

61But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said to him: Art thou the Christ the Son of the blessed God?

62And Jesus said to him: I am. And you shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of the power of God, and coming with the clouds of heaven.

63Then the high priest rending his garments, saith: What need we any further witnesses?

64You have heard the blasphemy. What think you? Who all condemned him to be guilty of death.

65And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him: Prophesy: and the servants struck him with the palms of their hands.

66Now when Peter was in the court below, there cometh one of the maidservants of the high priest.

67And when she had seen Peter warming himself, looking on him she saith: Thou also wast with Jesus of Nazareth.

68But he denied, saying: I neither know nor understand what thou sayest. And he went forth before the court; and the cock crew.

69And again a maidservant seeing him, began to say to the standers by: This is one of them.

70But he denied again. And after a while they that stood by said again to Peter: Surely thou art one of them; for thou art also a Galilean.

71But he began to curse and to swear, saying; I know not this man of whom you speak.

72And immediately the cock crew again. And Peter remembered the word that Jesus had said unto him: Before the cock crow twice, thou shalt thrice deny me. And he began to weep.

Mark 15: 1And straightway in the morning, the chief priests holding a consultation with the ancients and the scribes and the whole council, binding Jesus, led him away, and delivered him to Pilate.