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Mark 14:2
But they said: Not on the festival day, lest there should be a tumult among the people.
Mark 14:2 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
Mark 14:2 in other translations
But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.
“But not during the feast,” they said, “or there may be a riot among the people.”
For they said, “Not during the feast, because there might be a riot among the people.”
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In context
1 Now the feast of the pasch and of the Azymes was after two days: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might by some wile lay hold on him and kill him.
2 But they said: Not on the festival day, lest there should be a tumult among the people.
3 And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of precious spikenard. And breaking the alabaster box, she poured it out upon his head.
4 Now there were some that had indignation within themselves and said: Why was this waste of the ointment made?
5 For this ointment might have been sold for more than three hundred pence and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
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