Bible in Basic English
"But they said, Not while the feast is going on, for fear there may be trouble among the people."
— Mark 14:2, Bible in Basic English
“But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.”
“for they said, Not during the feast, lest haply there shall be a tumult 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 on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.”
It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes made designs how they might take him by deceit and put him to death:
But they said, Not while the feast is going on, for fear there may be trouble among the people.
And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, seated at table, there came a woman with a bottle of perfumed oil of great price; and when the bottle was broken she put the perfume on his head.
But some of them were angry among themselves, saying, For what purpose has this oil been wasted?
We might have got more than three hundred pence for it, and given the money to the poor. And they said things against her among themselves.