King James Version
What Does Mark 14:1 Mean?
“After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.”
Context
1
After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
2
But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.
3
And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. spikenard: or, pure nard, or, liquid nard
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers**XIV.**
(1, 2) **After two days was the feast of the passover.**—See Notes on Matthew 26:1-5. Better, *was the passover, and the feast of unleavened bread.* The latter designation is common to St. Mark and St. Luke, as an explanation intended for Gentile readers. The same fact accounts, perhaps, for the omission by both of the name of Caiaphas as the chief mover in the scheme.
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
Historical Context
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