Matthew 26:5 - People's Commentary (NT)

Matthew 26:5

3 ^aThen the chief priests,¹ the scribes, and the elders of the people assembled at the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

4 and ^aplotted to take Jesus by trickery and kill Him.

5 But they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar among the ^apeople.”

The Anointing at Bethany

6 And when Jesus was in ^aBethany at the house of Simon the leper,

7 a woman came to Him having an alabaster flask of very costly fragrant oil, and she poured it on His head as He sat at the table.

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Matthew 26:5

Matthew 26:5 Not on the feast [day]. During the passover there were millions of Jews in Jerusalem. Josephus says that in AD 65, three million were present. There were often tumults at the passover, and it was feared that the arrest of Jesus would arouse one. On such occasions the Romans suppressed the disturbance without mercy.

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Matthew 26:5
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