What Is Jesus Worth to You? | The Gospels | Mark 14:1–26

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🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Does your faith cost you anything? Do you see devotion to Jesus as beautiful or wasteful? Can you be "close" to Jesus and still miss him? In today’s episode, Keith walks through Mark 14:1–26 to show how a woman’s costly act of devotion reveals what it looks like to truly believe the Gospel and why half-hearted faith always falls short. Read the Bible with us in 2026! This year, we’re exploring the Gospels—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passage: Mark 14:1-26

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life.
0:08.9	In the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.6	I'm Keith Simon.
0:12.0	I remember a couple years ago at Thanksgiving, I saw breaking news come across the television screen.
0:18.4	What was the breaking news? Well, that record numbers of people were shopping
0:21.7	on Black Friday. Crazy, right? I mean, who would have guessed that there would be a lot of people
0:26.9	out shopping the day after Thanksgiving? When everything is breaking news, when everything is
0:32.4	historic, when everything is magnificent or amazing or the best ever, words lose their meaning.
0:39.3	When everything is historic, how do you set apart anything is truly historic?
0:44.2	Well, in Mark 14, we read about a woman who Jesus says deserves to be remembered.
0:49.9	In fact, he says that wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world,
0:53.2	what she has done
0:54.1	will also be told in memory of her.
0:56.9	Why did he say this about this woman and no one else?
1:01.2	Let's find out in Mark Chapter 14.
1:03.8	Now the Passover and the festival of unleavened bread were only two days away, and the chief
1:08.9	priests and the teachers of the law were scheming to
1:11.0	arrest Jesus secretly and kill him. But not during the festival, they said, or the people may riot.
1:17.2	We're told that it's two days before Passover, two days before Jesus will be crucified.
1:22.6	Look at who's conspiring against Jesus. It's not the pagans that seek to kill Jesus, but the religious leaders.
1:29.5	It's the chief priests and the teachers of the law. See, the betrayal of Jesus begins with the inner
1:35.2	circle. It begins with the religious. The church always seems to be looking for the enemy on the
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