Mark 14:9

And verily I say unto you, Wheresoever the gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, that also which this woman hath done shall be spoken of her for a memorial of her.

This verse requires important deductions: (1) Christ did not believe that the end of all things would occur at some near time in the future, this verse envisaging a worldwide proclamation of the gospel throughout the ages. (2) That this memorial "of her" intrinsically demanded the publication of her name is evident; and therefore the silence of the synoptics regarding it must be accounted for by supposing that it was deliberately concealed for a long while afterward, perhaps during the lifetime of Lazarus and his sisters. John, writing long afterward, supplied the name of Mary (John 12:3). (3) This has the effect of all three synoptics corroborating the gospel of John regarding the resurrection of Lazarus from the dead, their silence regarding the name of Mary having no other reasonable explanation except upon the premise that such a resurrection had indeed occurred and that the privacy of the family demanded her name's omission in the earlier gospels. One may read a library of comments and find no other reasonable explanation of such an omission (in the face of the Saviour's command) except that inferred here.

JUDAS' BETRAYAL

Stung by Jesus' rebuke, the traitor, already out of sympathy with the spiritual nature of Christ's kingdom, decided to take matters into his own hands.