Mark 14:2

but, "Not on a feast-day," they said, "for fear there should be a riot among the people."

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

1Now two days later was the feast of the Passover and of Unleavened Bread. Both the chief priests and the Scribes were continually seeking how they might arrest him by a stratagem and kill him;

3And while he was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the Leper, while he was dining, a woman came with an alabaster vase of very costly, pure spikenard perfume, and, breaking the vase, she poured the perfume on his head.

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Cross References

Matthew 26:5but said they, "Not during the feast, for fear of causing a riot among the people."

Mark 11:32On the other hand, if we say, ‘From men’!"They were afraid, however, of the people, for every one held that Johnhad been really a prophet.

John 7:40Some of the crowd who had been listening to these discourses began to say, "Without a doubt this man is a 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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