Mark 14:11 · World English Bible
Mark 14:11 Meaning They
They, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. He sought how he might conveniently deliver him.
What does Mark 14:11 mean?
Gladness at the offer to hand love over is the ego rejoicing whenever it thinks it has found a way to be rid of what it fears. The mind that lives by separation greets any plan of attack as good news, and it is willing to pay for it, because guilt believes it purchases its own safety by the ruin of another.
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Gladness at the offer to hand love over is the ego rejoicing whenever it thinks it has found a way to be rid of what it fears. The mind that lives by separation greets any plan of attack as good news, and it is willing to pay for it, because guilt believes it purchases its own safety by the ruin of another.
The seeking that follows is fear grown patient, waiting for the convenient hour to strike. Yet a mind that watches this in itself sees that nothing was ever truly for sale, because the love it schemes against cannot be bought or betrayed away.
Money: the false payment guilt believes buys its safety, the worthless price the mind sets on an act of attack
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Live Mark 14:11 today
- Watch for the small lift you get when you hear something bad about someone you resent. Just see it happening, without feeding it another thought, and it loosens.
- If a group chat turns into a pile-on today, do not add the clever line you already have ready. Silence there is a real kindness, even though no one will know you gave it.
- When you want to say the thing that would land hardest in a meeting or an argument, wait a beat and say the true thing instead. The sharp version always costs you more than it costs them.
Where have I been quietly glad about someone else's trouble?
The same truth in other traditions
Buddhism · Dhammapada
The mind bent on harm injures the one who holds it before it ever reaches anyone else. There is no clean profit in it.
Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius
When someone wrongs you, remember that their real loss is what they have become. Nothing you gain by damaging another was ever worth the price.
Tao Te Ching
Weapons are instruments of grief, and the wise take no delight in them. A victory you are glad about should make you suspicious of yourself.
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