Mark 14:1

Now the feast of the pasch, and of the Azymes was after two days; and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might by some wile lay hold on him, and kill him.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 festival day, lest there should be a tumult among the people.

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Cross References

Leviticus 2:6Thou shalt divide it into little pieces, and shalt pour oil upon it.

Numbers 28:16And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, shall be the phase of the Lord,

Psalms 2:1Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things?

Psalms 62:4How long do you rush in upon a man? you all kill, as if you were thrusting down a leaning wall, and a tottering fence.

Psalms 64:2Hear, O God, my prayer, when I make supplication to thee : deliver my soul from the fear of the enemy.

Matthew 12:14And the Pharisees going out made 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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