Mark 14:2

But they said, “Not on the feast day, lest perhaps there may be a tumult among the people.”

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In The King James Version

But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.

In Context

1Now 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.

3And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was reclining to eat, a woman arrived having an alabaster container of ointment, of precious spikenard. And breaking open the alabaster container, she poured it over his head.

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Cross References

Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom, there is no prudence, there is no counsel, which is against the Lord.

Matthew 26:5But they said, “Not on the feast day, lest perhaps there may be a tumult among the people.”

Mark 11:32If we say, ‘From men,’ we fear the people. For they all hold that John was a true prophet.”

John 7:40Therefore, some from that crowd, when they had heard these words of his, were saying, “This one truly is the Prophet.”

Matthew Henry on Mark 14:2-12

Christ Anointed at Bethany; Judas Engages to Betray Christ. 1 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. 2 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people. 3 And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.… Read the whole commentary →

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