2"But not during the Feast," they said, "or the people may riot."
2"But not during the Feast," they said, "or the people may riot."
1 Now the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were only two days away, and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were looking for some sly way to arrest Jesus and kill him.
2 "But not during the Feast," they said, "or the people may riot."
3 While he was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of a man known as Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head.
4 Some of those present were saying indignantly to one another, "Why this waste of perfume?
14:2But they said, Not on the feast [day,] lest there be an uproar of the people.
14:2But they said: Not on the festival day, lest there should be a tumult among the people.
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.