Mark 14:2
World English Bible (WEB)
For they said, “Not during the feast, because there might be a riot among the people.”
In context
1 It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of 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 among 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 every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- For they said, “Not during the feast, because there might 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.
- 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.