Matthew 26:5
“But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.”
Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.
Related Verses
“But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.”
“And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.”
“And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.”
“Howbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews.”
“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.”