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What does Mark 14:1 mean?
"It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him."
— Mark 14:1 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.
For they said, “Not during the feast, because there might be a riot among the people.”
While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard—very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head.
But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, “Why has this ointment been wasted?
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