Matthew 26:5
But they said: Not on the festival, lest there be a commotion among the people.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
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 a counsel against Jesus, that they might take him by guile, and kill him.
6And when Jesus was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
Cross References
Matthew 21:26And if we should say, From men; we are afraid of the multitude, for they all hold John as a prophet.
Mark 14:2But they said: Not on the festival, lest there be commotion among the people.
Mark 14:27And Jesus said to them: All of you will this night be stumbled in me: for it is written, " I will smite the shepherd, and his sheep will be scattered."
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 →