Mark 14:1

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“Now the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were two days away, and the chief priests and scribes were looking for a covert way to arrest Jesus and kill Him.”

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BSBPD

“Now the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were two days away, and the chief priests and scribes were looking for a covert way to arrest Jesus and kill Him.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“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:”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And the passover and the unleavened food were after two days, and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how, by guile, having taken hold of him, they might kill him;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Mark 14:1 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 12:6You must keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.
  2. Leviticus 2:6Crumble it and pour oil on it; it is a grain offering.
  3. Leviticus 23:5The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
  4. Numbers 28:16The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.
  5. Deuteronomy 16:1Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
  6. Psalms 2:1Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
  7. Psalms 52:3You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah
  8. Psalms 62:4They fully intend to cast him down from his lofty perch; they delight in lies; with their mouths they bless, but inwardly they curse. Selah
  9. Psalms 62:9Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
  10. Psalms 64:2Hide me from the scheming of the wicked, from the mob of workers of iniquity,
  11. Matthew 6:2So when you give to the needy, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.
  12. Matthew 12:14But the Pharisees went out and plotted how they might kill Jesus.
  13. Matthew 26:2“You know that the Passover is two days away, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified.”
  14. Luke 22:1Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread, called the Passover, was approaching,
  15. John 11:47Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.
  16. John 11:53So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.
  17. John 13:1It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end.
  18. Acts 4:25You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

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