Matthew 26:5
But they said, “Not on the feast day, lest perhaps there may be a tumult among the people.”
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
In Context
4And they took counsel so that by deceitfulness they might take hold of Jesus and kill him.
6And when Jesus was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper,
Cross References
Psalms 76:10And would God ever forget to be merciful? Or, would he, in his wrath, restrict his mercies?
Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom, there is no prudence, there is no counsel, which is against the Lord.
Lamentations 3:37MEM. Who is this, who said to do what the Lord did not command?
Matthew 21:26“If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say to us, ‘Then why did you not believe him?’ But if we say, ‘From men,’ we have the crowd to fear, for they all hold John to be a prophet.”
Mark 14:2But they said, “Not on the feast day, lest perhaps there may be a tumult among the people.”
Mark 14:27And Jesus said to them: “You will all fall away from me in this night. For it has been written: ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’
Matthew Henry on Matthew 26:2-6
The Plot of the Chief Priests. 1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples, 2 Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified. 3 Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, 4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him. 5 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar… Read the whole commentary →