American Standard Version
"for they said, Not during the feast, lest haply there shall be a tumult of the people. "
— Mark 14:2, American Standard Version
“But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.”
“For they said, "Not during the feast, because there might be a riot of the people."”
“For they said,“Not during the feast, so there won’t be a riot among the people.””
“But they said: Not on the festival day, lest there should be a tumult among the people.”
“But they said, Not while the feast is going on, for fear there may be trouble among the people.”
“But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.”
Now after two days wasthe feast ofthe passover and the unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him with subtlety, and kill him:
for they said, Not during the feast, lest haply there shall be a tumult of the people.
And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster cruse of ointment of pure nard very costly; and she brake the cruse, and poured it over his head.
But there were some that had indignation among themselves, saying, To what purpose hath this waste of the ointment been made?
For this ointment might have been sold for above three hundred shillings, and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.