Mark 14:2

But they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar among the people.” 1 The Anointing at Bethany

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.

In Context

1Now after two days it was the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they might get hold of Him by guile, and how they might kill Him.

3And while He was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as He was reclining for a meal, a woman came having an alabaster flask of very costly pure nard. And having broken the flask, she began to pour it out over His head.

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Cross References

Matthew 26:5But they said, “Not during the feast, lest a disturbance take place among the people.” 1 The Anointing at Bethany

Mark 11:32But should we say, ‘From men’ ”—they feared the people, for all had considered John to have been a prophet indeed.

John 7:40Therefore many from the crowd, when they heard this saying, said, “Truly this is 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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