Mark 14:1

It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2For they said, "Not during the feast, because there might be a riot of the people."

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Cross References

Leviticus 2:6You shall cut it in pieces, and pour oil on it. It is a meal offering.

Numbers 28:16"'In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the Lord's Passover.

Psalms 2:1Why do the nations rage,and the peoples plot a vain thing?

Psalms 62:4They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place.They delight in lies.They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.Selah.

Psalms 64:2Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked,from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

Matthew 12:14But the Pharisees went out, and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.

Matthew Henry on Mark 14:1

In this chapter begins the account which this evangelist gives of the death and sufferings of our Lord Jesus, which we are all concerned to be acquainted, not only with the history of, but with the mystery of. Here is, I. The plot of the chief priests and scribes against Christ, ver. 1, 2 . II. The anointing of Christ's head at a supper in Bethany, two days before his death, ver. 3-9 . III. The contract Judas made with the chief priests, to betray him, ver. 10, 11 . IV. Christ's eating the passover with his… Read the whole commentary →

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