Mark 14:1

Now after two days was the Passover and the unleavened bread. And the chief priests and the scholars sought how, having take him with trickery, they might kill him,

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In The King James Version

After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.

In Context

2but they said, Not during the feast, lest there will be an uproar of the people.

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Cross References

Leviticus 2:6Thou shall part it in pieces, and pour oil in it. It is a meal-offering.

Numbers 28:16And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is LORD's Passover.

Psalms 2:1Why do the nations rage, and the peoples meditate vain things (LXX/NT)?

Psalms 62:4They only consult to thrust him down from his dignity. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

Psalms 64:2Hide me from the secret counsel of evil-doers, from the tumult of the workers of iniquity,

Matthew 12:14But when they went out, the Pharisees held a consultation against him, how they might destroy him.

Matthew Henry on Mark 14:1

In this chapter begins the account which this evangelist gives of the death and sufferings of our Lord Jesus, which we are all concerned to be acquainted, not only with the history of, but with the mystery of. Here is, I. The plot of the chief priests and scribes against Christ, ver. 1, 2 . II. The anointing of Christ's head at a supper in Bethany, two days before his death, ver. 3-9 . III. The contract Judas made with the chief priests, to betray him, ver. 10, 11 . IV. Christ's eating the passover with his… Read the whole commentary →

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