Mark 14:2

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

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In Context

1After 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.

3And 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.

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Cross References

Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.

Matthew 26:5But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.

Mark 11:32But if we shall say, Of men; they feared the people: for all men counted John, that he was a prophet indeed.

John 7:40Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is 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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