Mark 14:2
King James Version (KJV)
But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there 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 be an uproar of the people.
3 And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake 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 every translation
- 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.”
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- “But not during the feast,” they said, “or there may 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.