Mark 14:2
But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.In other versions
for they said, Not during the feast, lest haply there shall be a tumult of the people.
ASV
But they said, Not while the feast is going on, for fear there may be trouble among the people.
BBE
For they said, Not in the feast, lest perhaps there be a tumult of the people.
DBY
For they said, "Not during the feast, because there might be a riot of the people."
WEB
and they said, `Not in the feast, lest there shall be a tumult of the people.'
YLT
But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.
ENG
But they said, Not on the feast-day, lest there should be an uproar of the people.
WBT
“But not during the feast,” they said, “or there may be a riot among the people.”
BSB
In context
1After 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.
2But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.
3And 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.
4And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?