Mark 14:1

It was two days before the Passover and the Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the scribes were looking for an underhanded way to seize and kill Him.

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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 during the feast, or the people may riot.”

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Cross References

Matthew 12:14But going out the Pharisees plotted 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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