Mark 14:1

And the Passover and the Unleavened [Bread] were after two days, and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how, by guile, having taken hold of Him, they might 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

2and they said, “Not in the celebration, lest there will be a tumult of the people.”

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Cross References

Leviticus 2:6divide it into parts, and you have poured oil on it; it [is] a present.

Numbers 28:16And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, [is] the Passover to YHWH;

Psalms 2:1Why have nations assembled tumultuously? And peoples meditate vanity?

Psalms 62:4Only—from his excellence || They have consulted to drive away, || They enjoy a lie, they bless with their mouth, || And revile with their heart. Selah.

Psalms 64:2Hide me from the secret counsel of evildoers, || From the tumult of workers of iniquity.

Matthew 12:14And the Pharisees having gone forth, held a consultation 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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