Mark 14:1

It was now two days before the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the scribes were considering how they might stealthily arrest Jesus and then kill him.

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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 during the feast, so that a riot does not arise among the people.”

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Cross References

Leviticus 2:6You are to divide it into pieces and pour oil on it. This is a grain offering.

Numbers 28:16During the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, comes Yahweh's Passover.

Psalms 2:1Why are the nations in turmoil, 1 and why do the peoples make plots that will fail? 1

Psalms 62:4They consult with him only to bring him down from his honorable position; 1 they love to tell lies; 1 they bless him with their mouths, but in their hearts they curse him. Selah 1

Psalms 64:2Hide me from the secret plotting of evildoers, 1 from the commotion of the doers of iniquity. 1

Matthew 12:14But the Pharisees went out and plotted against him. They were seeking how they might put him to death.

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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