In Mark 14, as Jesus is just a couple of days away from His death on the cross, we get a vivid picture of what it looks like to be broken and poured out in our love and devotion and worship of Jesus. Mark deliberately places the stark contrast of the hate of the leading priests and the teachers of religious law with the love of Mary of Bethany followed again by the hate of Judas. He sandwiches them so that we might see their contrast. Like an artist, he draws together two lines of truth, taking that line of thought which centers around hate, and that which centers around love, and braiding them together.