King James Version (KJV)
Matthew 26:5
“But they said, Not on the feast [day], lest there be an uproar among the people.”
Verse in context — Matthew 26
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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,
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And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill [him].
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But they said, Not on the feast [day], lest there be an uproar among the people.
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Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
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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].
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