Mark 14:1

Now it was two days before Pesach, the Chag HaMatzot. And the Rashei Hakohanim and the Sofrim were seeking how they might by ormah (cunning) do away with Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

2For they were saying, Not at the Chag, for fear that a riot break out among the am haaretz.

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Cross References

Leviticus 2:6Thou shalt break it in pieces, and pour shemen thereon; it is a minchah.

Numbers 28:16And in the fourteenth day of the chodesh harishon (first month i.e., Nisan) is the Pesach to Hashem.

Psalms 2:1Why do the Goyim rage, 1 and the Amim (peoples) imagine a vain thing? 1

Psalms 62:4How long will ye rush to attack an ish? 1 To thrust at, all of you, 1 as at a leaning kir (wall), 1 and as at a tottering gader (fence). 1

Psalms 64:2Hear my voice, O Elohim, in my si'akh (complaint); 1 preserve my life from the pachad (terror) of the oyev (enemy). 1

Matthew 12:14But the Perushim went out and took counsel against Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach so that 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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