Mark 14:1

Now the feast of Passover and of Unleavened Bread was two days away. And the leaders of the priests, and the scribes, were seeking a means by which they might deceitfully seize him and 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 on the feast day, lest perhaps there may be a tumult among the people.”

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Cross References

Leviticus 2:6you shall divide it into little pieces and pour oil over it.

Numbers 28:16Then, in the first month, the fourteenth day of the month shall be the Passover of the Lord.

Psalms 2:1Why have the Gentiles been seething, and why have the people been pondering nonsense?

Psalms 62:4For your mercy is better than life itself. It is you my lips will praise.

Psalms 64:2O God, a hymn adorns you in Zion, and a vow will be repaid to you in Jerusalem.

Matthew 12:14Then the Pharisees, departing, took council against him, as to 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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