Mark 14:2

For they were saying, “Not during the feast, so that a riot does not arise among the people.”

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But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.

In Context

1It 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.

3While Jesus was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at the table, a woman came to him having an alabaster jar of very costly liquid, which was pure nard. She broke the jar and poured it on his head.

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Cross References

Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom, there is no understanding, and there is no advice 1 that can stand against Yahweh. 1

Matthew 26:5For they were saying, “Not during the feast, so that a riot does not arise among the people.”

Mark 11:32But if we say, 'From men,' ... .” They were afraid of the people, for everyone was convinced that John was a prophet.

John 7:40Some of the crowd, when they heard these words, said, “This is indeed 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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