Mark 14:2

And they said, Not on the festival, lest there be a commotion among the people.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

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

In Context

1BUT after two days was the Petscha of unleavened cakes: and the chief priests and the Sophree sought how with guile they might apprehend and kill him.

3And when he was at Bethania in the house of Shemun the leper, as he reclined, there came a woman who had with her a vase of the balsam of the choicest nard of great prices; and she opened it, and poured it upon the head of Jeshu.

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Cross References

Matthew 26:5And they said, Let it not be on the festival, lest there be a tumult among the people.

Mark 11:32And if we should say, From the sons of man, there is fear from the people; for all have held Juchanon that he was truly a prophet.

John 7:40Now many of the assemblies who heard his words said, This is truly 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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