2But they said: Not on the festival day, lest there should be a tumult among the people.
2But they said: Not on the festival day, lest there should be a tumult among the people.
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?
14:2But they said, Not on the feast [day,] lest there be an uproar of the people.
14:2"But not during the Feast," they said, "or the people may riot."
14:2for they said, Not during the feast, lest haply there shall be a tumult of the people.
14:2For they said, Not in the feast, lest perhaps there be a tumult of the people.
14:2for they said, Not during the feast, lest haply there shall be a tumult of the people.
14:2But they said, Not on the feast-day, lest there should be an uproar of the people.
14:2For they said, |Not during the feast, because there might be a riot of the people.|
14:2and they said, 'Not in the feast, lest there shall be a tumult of the people.'
14:2But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.