Mark 14:2
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
“But not during the feast,” they said, “or there may be a riot among the people.”
In context
1 Now the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were two days away, and the chief priests and scribes were looking for a covert way to arrest Jesus and kill Him.
2 “But not during the feast,” they said, “or there may be a riot among the people.”
3 While Jesus was in Bethany reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke open the jar and poured it on Jesus’ head.
4 Some of those present, however, expressed their indignation to one another: “Why this waste of perfume?
Mark 14:2 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- “But not during the feast,” they said, “or there may be a riot among the people.”
- KJV King James Version
- But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.
- WEB World English Bible
- For they said, “Not during the feast, because there might be a riot among the people.”
- ASV American Standard Version
- for they said, Not during the feast, lest haply there shall be a tumult of the people.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and they said, 'Not in the feast, lest there shall be a tumult of the people.'
- DBY Darby Translation
- For they said, Not in the feast, lest perhaps there be a tumult of the people.
- WBS Webster Bible
- But they said, Not on the feast -day , lest there should be an uproar of the people.