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


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?

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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:2For they said, Not in the feast, lest perhaps there 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 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.