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Mark 14:2
But they said, Not on the feast-[day], lest there should be an uproar of the people.
Mark 14:2 · Webster Bible
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 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 should be an uproar of the people.
3 And being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at table, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard, very precious; and she broke the box, and poured [it] on his head.
4 And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
5 For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
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