Mark 14:1

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.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
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.
KJV
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.
WEB
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.
ASV
Now after two days was [the feast of] the passover and the unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him with subtlety, and kill him:
DARBY
Now the passover and the [feast of] unleavened bread was after two days. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they might seize him by subtlety and kill him.
BLB
And after two days it would be the Passover and the Unleavened. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how, having taken Him by stealth, they might kill [Him].
ÅB
Men to dager deretter var det påske og de usyrede brøds høytid. Og yppersteprestene og de skriftlærde søkte råd til å gripe ham med list og slå ham ihjel;
OTB
Nå nærmet påsken og de usyrede brøds høytid seg, og overprestene og de skriftlærde planla å arrestere Jesus i hemmelighet og drepe ham;
B1930
Men to dager derefter var det påske og de usyrede brøds høitid. Og yppersteprestene og de skriftlærde søkte råd til å gripe ham med list og slå ham ihjel;

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Exodus 12:6–20

    You must keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.

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  • Luke 22:1–2

    Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread, called the Passover, was approaching,

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  • John 13:1

    It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end.

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  • Deuteronomy 16:1–8

    Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

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  • Leviticus 23:5–7

    The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.

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  • Acts 4:25–28

    You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

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  • Psalms 62:4

    They fully intend to cast him down from his lofty perch; they delight in lies; with their mouths they bless, but inwardly they curse. Selah

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  • Matthew 26:2–5

    “You know that the Passover is two days away, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified.”

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