2For they said, Not in the feast, lest perhaps there be a tumult of the people.


In Context

1 Now the passover and the feast of unleavened bread was after two days. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they might seize him by subtlety and kill him.

2 For they said, Not in the feast, lest perhaps there be a tumult of the people.

3 And when he was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he lay at table, there came a woman having an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly; and having broken the alabaster flask, she poured it out upon his head.

4 And there were some indignant in themselves, and saying, Why has this waste been made of the ointment?

Mark 14:2 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:2But they said, Not on the feast [day,] lest there be an uproar of the people.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

14:2"But not during the Feast," they said, "or the people may riot."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

14:2But they said: Not on the festival day, lest there should be a tumult among the people.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

14:2for they said, Not during the feast, lest haply there shall be a tumult of the people.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

14:2for they said, Not during the feast, lest haply there shall be a tumult of the people.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:2But they said, Not on the feast-day, lest there should be an uproar of the people.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:2For they said, |Not during the feast, because there might be a riot of the people.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

14:2and they said, 'Not in the feast, lest there shall be a tumult of the people.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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