Mark 14:1-2

Expanded Bible

The Plan to Kill Jesus^(A)

14 It was now only two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread [^Cthe annual festival that celebrates God’s rescue of Israel from Egypt; Ex. 12]. The ·leading [^Tchief] priests and ·teachers of the law [scribes] were trying to find a ·trick [secret way] to arrest Jesus and kill him. ² But they said, “We must not do it during the feast, because the people might cause a riot.”