Mark 14:1

Now the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were two days away, and the chief priests and scribes were looking for a covert way to arrest Jesus and kill Him.

Berean Standard Bible

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

2“But not during the feast,” they said, “or there may be a riot among the people.”

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Cross References

Leviticus 2:6Crumble it and pour oil on it; it is a grain offering.

Numbers 28:16The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.

Psalms 2:1Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

Psalms 62:4They fully intend to cast him down from his lofty perch; they delight in lies; with their mouths they bless, but inwardly they curse. Selah

Psalms 64:2Hide me from the scheming of the wicked, from the mob of workers of iniquity,

Matthew 12:14But the Pharisees went out and plotted how they might kill Jesus.

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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