Mark 14:1
Good News Translation
It was now two days before the Festival of Passover and Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the teachers of the Law were looking for a way to arrest Jesus secretly and put him to death.

New Revised Standard Version
It was two days before the Passover and the festival of Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a way to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him;

Contemporary English Version
It was now two days before Passover and the Festival of Thin Bread. The chief priests and the teachers of the Law of Moses were planning how they could sneak around and have Jesus arrested and put to death.

New American Bible
The Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were to take place in two days’ time. So the chief priests and the scribes were seeking a way to arrest him by treachery and put him to death.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now the feast of the pasch and of the Azymes was after two days: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might by some wile lay hold on him and kill him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Now the feast of the pasch and of the Azymes was after two days: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might by some wile lay hold on him and kill him.

two.

Matthew 6:2 Therefore when thou dost an alms-deed, sound not a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be honoured by men. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward.

Luke 22:1,2 Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the pasch, was at hand. . . .

John 11:53-57 From that day therefore they devised to put him to death. . . .

John 13:1 Before the festival day of the pasch, Jesus knowing that his hour was come, that he should pass out of this world to the Father: having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

the passover.

Exodus 12:6-20 And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; and the whole multitude of the children of Israel shall sacrifice it in the evening. . . .

Leviticus 23:5-7 The first month, the fourteenth day of the month at evening, is the phase of the Lord. . . .

Numbers 28:16-25 And in the first month, on the four tenth day of the month, shall be the phase of the Lord, . . .

Deuteronomy 16:1-8 Observe the month of new corn, which is the first of the spring, that thou mayst celebrate the phase to the Lord thy God: because in this month the Lord thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night. . . .

chief.

Psalm 2:1-5 Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things? . . .

John 11:47 The chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees gathered a council and said: What do we, for this man doth many miracles?

Acts 4:25-28 Who, by the Holy Ghost, by the mouth of our father David, thy servant, hast said: Why did the Gentiles rage: and the people meditate vain things? . . .

by.

Psalm 52:3 Thou hast loved malice more than goodness: and iniquity rather than to speak righteousness.

Psalm 62:4,9 But they have thought to cast away my price; I ran in thirst: they blessed with their mouth, but cursed with their heart. . . .

Psalm 64:2-6 Thou hast protected me from the assembly of the malignant; from the multitude of the workers of iniquity. . . .

Matthew 26:4 And they consulted together that by subtilty they might apprehend Jesus and put him to death.

Context
The Plot to Kill Jesus
1Now the feast of the pasch and of the Azymes was after two days: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might by some wile lay hold on him and kill him. 2But they said: Not on the festival day, lest there should be a tumult among the people.…
Cross References
Genesis 37:18
And when they saw him afar off, before he came nigh them, they thought to kill him:

Exodus 12:1
And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt:

Matthew 12:14
And the Pharisees going out made a consultation against him, how they might destroy him.

Matthew 26:2
You know that after two days shall be the pasch: and the Son of man shall be delivered up to be crucified.

Matthew 26:4
And they consulted together that by subtilty they might apprehend Jesus and put him to death.

Mark 14:2
But they said: Not on the festival day, lest there should be a tumult among the people.

Mark 14:12
Now on the first day of the unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the pasch, the disciples say to him: Whither wilt thou that we go and prepare for thee to eat the pasch?

Luke 22:1
Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the pasch, was at hand.

Luke 22:2
And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put Jesus to death: but they feared the people.

John 11:55
And the pasch of the Jews was at hand: and many from the country went up to Jerusalem, before the pasch, to purify themselves.

John 13:1
Before the festival day of the pasch, Jesus knowing that his hour was come, that he should pass out of this world to the Father: having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

Acts 12:4
And when he had apprehended him, he cast him into prison, delivering him to four files of soldiers, to be kept, intending, after the pasch, to bring him forth to the people.

Mark 13:37
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