Mark 14:1

It was now two days before Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the religious leaders were trying to find a surreptitious way to arrest Jesus and have him killed.

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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

2“But not during Passover,” they said to themselves, “otherwise the people may riot.”

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Cross References

Leviticus 2:6Break it up and pour olive oil over it; it is a grain offering.

Numbers 28:16The Lord's Passover is on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Psalms 2:1Why are the nations plotting rebellion? The peoples devise schemes, but they're pointless.

Psalms 62:4They plan to throw me down from my high position; they love to tell lies. They say nice things to me, but inside they're cursing me. Selah.

Psalms 64:2Shelter me from the plots of the wicked, from this evil mob.

Matthew 12:14But the Pharisees went out and plotted how to 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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