Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 5
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5: ελεγον δε μη εν τη εορτη ινα μη θορυβος γενηται εν τω λαω
5: But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar
among the people.
5: But they said: Not on the festival day, lest perhaps there should
be a tumult among the people.
Not on the feast day. Not during the feast. The feast lasted seven days. A vast multitude attended from all parts of Judea. Jerusalem is said to have contained at such times three millions of people. Amidst such a multitude there were frequent tumults and seditions; and the sanhedrim was justly apprehensive there would be now, if in open day, and in the temple, they took away a teacher so popular as Jesus, and put him to death. They therefore sought how they might do it secretly, and by guile.
