Mark 14:2

For they said, Not in the feast, lest perhaps there be a tumult of the people.

Darby Translation

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 passover and the [feast of] unleavened bread was after two days. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they might seize him by subtlety and kill him.

3And when he was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he lay at table, there came a woman having an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly; and having broken the alabaster flask, she poured it out upon his head.

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Cross References

Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom, nor understanding, nor counsel against Jehovah.

Matthew 26:5but they said, Not in the feast, that there be not a tumult among the people.

Mark 11:32but should we say, Of men they feared the people; for all held of John that he was truly a prophet.

John 7:40[Some] out of the crowd therefore, having heard this word, said, This is truly 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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