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


In Context

1 It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.

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

3 While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard—very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head.

4 But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, |Why has this ointment been wasted?

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 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 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.