Mark 14:2

But they said, “Not during the feast, or the people may riot.”

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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

1It 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.

3Being in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, as He was reclining at a meal, a woman came having an alabaster vase of very costly perfume of pure nard. Then she broke the vase and began to pour it over His head.

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Cross References

Matthew 26:5But they said, “Not during the feast, in order not to have an uproar among the people.”

Mark 11:32But if we say, ‘From men’…”—they feared the people, for everyone held John to really be a prophet.

John 7:40So upon hearing this word many from the crowd began to say, “This One really 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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