Mark 14:2

They said, “We have to kill this man, but if we do it at our ceremony time all the people will fight us.” And you can read this story in Matthew 26:6-13; and in John 12:1-8

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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

1Every year the Jewish people went to Jerusalem for the Passover and Flat Bread ceremonies. But 2 days before the ceremonies started, the Chief Priests (Jewish ceremony leaders) and the law teachers made plans to arrest Jesus in a sneaky way and then kill him. But they were worried.

3At this time Jesus and his followers were staying in a town called Bethany, and they stayed with a man who was called Simon the Leper. Jesus and his followers were eating supper when a woman walked into the room with a stone bottle that had special oil in it. That oil smelled really nice and it cost a lot of money. She broke the top off the bottle and poured the oil on Jesus' head.

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Cross References

Mark 11:32And if we say that someone here on earth told John to baptise people, we will still be in trouble.” All the people believed that God sent John and so those Jewish leaders were frightened of them.

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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