Matthew 26:5
And they said, Let it not be on the festival, lest there be a tumult 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 among the people.
In Context
4And they held counsel concerning Jeshu, how that by artifice they might apprehend and kill him.
6And when Jeshu was at Bethania, in the house of Shemun the leper,
Cross References
Matthew 21:26And if we shall say, From men, we fear from the crowd; for all have regarded Juchanon as a prophet.
Mark 14:2And they said, Not on the festival, lest there be a commotion among the people.
Mark 14:27AND Jeshu said to them, All of you will be offended with me in this night: for it is written, I will strike the Shepherd, and scattered shall be his sheep.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 26:2-6
The Plot of the Chief Priests. 1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples, 2 Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified. 3 Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, 4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him. 5 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar… Read the whole commentary →