"But they said, Not on the feast {day}, lest there be an uproar of the people." — Mark 14:2

Mark 14:2 · KJV

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

— Mark 14:2

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.

Verse 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. {spikenard: or, pure nard, or, liquid nard}

Mark 14 — Context

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.

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

And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?

Cross References

Proverbs 21:30

{There is} no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.

Mark 11:18

And the scribes and chief priests heard {it}, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his doctrine.

John 12:19

The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.

Proverbs 19:21

{There are} many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.

Mark 11:32

But if we shall say, Of men; they feared the people: for all {men} counted John, that he was a prophet indeed.

Luke 20:6

But and if we say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for they be persuaded that John was a prophet.

Matthew 26:5

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

John 7:40

Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet.