Mark 14:2

But they said, Not on the feast-day, least there be a tumult of the people.

1770 John Worsley NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

1Now the feast of the passover and unleavened bread was within two days: and the chief priests and the scribes were contriving how they might seize Him by treachery and put Him to death.

3And when He was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as He was at table, there came a woman with an alabaster-box of ointment of spikenard, very valuable; and she brake the box and poured it on his head.

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Cross References

Matthew 26:5But they said, Not on the feast-day, least there should be a tumult among the people.

Mark 11:32but if we should say, from men --- they feared the people: (for they they all thought that John was a prophet indeed:)

John 7:40Many of the people therefore, when they heard this discourse, said, This is in truth 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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