King James Version
Mark 14:2 in the King James Version says “But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.” — study this verse from Mark chapter 14 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.”
Mark 14:2 · KJV
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.
But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.
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
And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
KJV Study — Public Domain
“they said”
G3004properly, to "lay" forth, i.e., (figuratively) relate (in words (usually of systematic or set discourse; whereas g2036 and g5346 generally refer to an
“Not”
G3361(adverb) not, (conjunction) lest; also (as an interrogative implying a negative answer (whereas g3756 expects an affirmative one)) whether
“of the people”
G2992a people (in general; thus differing from g1218, which denotes one's own populace)
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