Mark 14:21

The Son of Man goes as Scripture foretold, yet woe to the betrayer; better for him never to have been born. Divine plan and human guilt stand together.

Cross-references · 26

• Isa 53:1–12Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
• Matt 26:24–25The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed. It would be better for him if he had not been born.”
• Zech 13:7Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, against the man who is My Companion, declares the LORD of Hosts. Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn My hand against the little ones.
• Dan 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
• Matt 18:6–7But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
• Acts 1:25to take up this ministry and apostleship, which Judas abandoned to go to his rightful place.”
• Gen 3:15And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
• Dan 9:26Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.
• Ps 55:15Let death seize them by surprise; let them go down to Sheol alive, for evil is with them in their homes.
• Matt 26:56But this has all happened so that the writings of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples deserted Him and fled.
• Isa 52:14Just as many were appalled at Him—His appearance was disfigured beyond that of any man, and His form was marred beyond human likeness—
• Matt 27:3–5When Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was filled with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders.
• John 19:28After this, knowing that everything had now been accomplished, and to fulfill the Scripture, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”
• Acts 2:23He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.
• Ps 69:1–36For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Lilies.” Of David. Save me, O God, for the waters are up to my neck.
• Acts 4:27In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed.
• Ps 22:1–31For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Doe of the Dawn.” A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?
• Matt 26:54But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen this way?”
• Ps 109:6–20Set over him a wicked man; let an accuser stand at his right hand.
• John 19:36–37Now these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of His bones will be broken.”
• Acts 13:27–29The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning Him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.
• Acts 1:16–20“Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit foretold through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide for those who arrested Jesus.
• Luke 22:22Indeed, the Son of Man will go as it has been determined, but woe to that man who betrays Him.”
• Mark 14:49Every day I was with you, teaching in the temple courts, and you did not arrest Me. But this has happened that the Scriptures would be fulfilled.”
• Luke 24:44Jesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.”
• Luke 24:26–27Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and then to enter His glory?”

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