Mark 14:2

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

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

1It was now two days before the Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread, and the High Priests and Scribes were bent on finding how to seize Him by stratagem and put Him to death.

3Now when He was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the Leper, while He was at table, there came a woman with a jar of pure, sweet-scented ointment very costly: she broke the jar and poured the ointment over His head.

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Cross References

Matthew 26:5But they said, "Not during the Festival, lest there be a riot among the people."

Mark 11:32Or should we say, `human?'" They were afraid of the people; for all agreed in holding John to have been really a Prophet.

John 7:40After listening to these discourses, some of the crowd began to say, "This is beyond doubt 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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