Mark 14:1

Now it was the Passover and the Unleavened [cakes], after two days. And the High-priests and Scribes were seeking, how, with guile, they might secure, and lay him;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 were saying—Not in the feast, lest there be an uproar of the people.

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Cross References

Leviticus 2:6parting it into pieces, then shalt thou pour thereon oil,—a meal-offering, it is,

Numbers 28:16And, on the first month on the fourteenth day of the month, shall be a passover unto Yahweh;

Psalms 2:1Wherefore have nations assembled in tumult? Or should, peoples, mutter an empty thing?

Psalms 62:4Surely, from his elevation, they have taken counsel to thrust him down, They accept falsehood,—With his mouth, they each of them bless, But, inwardly, they revile. [Selah.]

Psalms 64:2Wilt thou hide me, From the conclave of evil-doers, From the crowd of workers of iniquity.

Matthew 12:14And the Pharisees, going forth, took, counsel, against him, to the end that, him, they might destroy.

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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