Death Plot and Anointing

14 (A)Now (B)the Passover and Festival of Unleavened Bread were two days away; and the chief priests and the scribes (C)were seeking how to arrest Him covertly and kill Him; for they were saying, “Not during the festival, otherwise there will be a riot of the people.”

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The Chief Priests and Scribes Plot to Kill Jesus

14 Now after two days it was the Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread, and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how, after[a] arresting him by stealth, they could kill him.[b] For they said, “Not at the feast, lest there be an uproar by the people.”

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 14:1 Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“arresting”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Mark 14:1 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation