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Mark 14:1

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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ASV

Now after two days was the feast of the passover and the unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him with subtlety, and kill him:

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.

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23 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
ἮνĒnIt wasG1510 →
δὲdenowG1161 →
τὸtotheG3588 →
πάσχαpaschaPassoverG3957 →
καὶkaiandG2532 →
τὰtatheG3588 →
ἄζυμαazuma[Feast of] Unleavened BreadG106 →
μετὰmetaafterG3326 →
δύοduotwoG1417 →
ἡμέρας,hēmerasdays,G2250 →
καὶkaiAndG2532 →
ἐζήτουνezētounwere seekingG2212 →
οἱhoitheG3588 →
ἀρχιερεῖςarchiereischief priestsG749 →
καὶkaiandG2532 →
οἱhoitheG3588 →
γραμματεῖςgrammateisscribesG1122 →
πῶςpōshowG4459 →
αὐτὸνautonHimG846 →
ἐνenbyG1722 →
δόλῳdolōstealthG1388 →
κρατήσαντεςkratēsanteshaving takenG2902 →
ἀποκτείνωσιν·apokteinōsinthey may kill [Him];G615 →

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Exodus 12:6–20You 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.Luke 22:1–2Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread, called the Passover, was approaching,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.Deuteronomy 16:1–8Observe 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.Genesis 37:18Now Joseph’s brothers saw him in the distance, and before he arrived, they plotted to kill him.Acts 4:25–28You 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?Leviticus 23:5–7The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.John 11:53–57So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.Matthew 12:14But the Pharisees went out and plotted how they might kill Jesus.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. SelahJohn 11:47Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.Psalms 64:2–6Hide me from the scheming of the wicked, from the mob of workers of iniquity,Matthew 26:2–5“You know that the Passover is two days away, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified.”Numbers 28:16–25The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.Psalms 2:1–5Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?Exodus 34:18You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, you are to eat unleavened bread as I commanded you. For in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.Hosea 6:9Like raiders who lie in ambush, so does a band of priests; they murder on the way to Shechem; surely they have committed atrocities.John 11:53So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.

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The Judas Kiss — Gustave Doré (engraving), public domain
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