World English Bible
"For they said, "Not during the feast, because there might be a riot of the people.""
— Mark 14:2, World English Bible
“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 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.”
It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.
For they said, "Not during the feast, because there might be a riot of the people."
While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard--very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head.
But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, "Why has this ointment been wasted?
For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor." They grumbled against her.