5But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.


In Context

2 You know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.

3 Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, to the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him.

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

6 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,

7 There came to him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.

Matthew 26:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

26:5But they said, Not on the feast [day,] lest there be an uproar among the people.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

26:5"But not during the Feast," they said, "or there may be a riot among the people."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

26:5But they said: Not on the festival day, lest perhaps there should be a tumult among the people.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

26:5But they said, Not during the feast, lest a tumult arise among people.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

26:5but they said, Not in the feast, that there be not a tumult among the people.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

26:5But they said, Not during the feast, lest a tumult arise among the people.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

26:5But they said, Not on the feast-day, lest there be an uproar among the people.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

26:5But they said, |Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

26:5and they said, 'Not in the feast, that there may not be a tumult among the people.'