Mark 14:2

But they said: Not on the festival day, lest there should be a tumult among the people.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 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.

3And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of precious spikenard: and breaking the alabaster box, she poured it out upon his head.

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Cross References

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

Matthew 26:5But they said: Not on the festival day, lest perhaps there should be a tumult among the people.

Mark 11:32If we say, From men, we fear the people. For all men counted John that he was a prophet indeed.

John 7:40Of that multitude therefore, when they had heard these words of his, some said: This is the prophet indeed.

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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