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


In Context

1 And the passover and the unleavened food were after two days, and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how, by guile, having taken hold of him, they might kill him;

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

3 And he, being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, at his reclining (at meat), there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment, of spikenard, very precious, and having broken the alabaster box, did pour on his head;

4 and there were certain much displeased within themselves, and saying, 'For what hath this waste of the ointment been 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 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 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.