Matthew 26:5

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Matthew 26:5

But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.

Not

Lest

Matthew 14:5

Matthew 21:26

Luke 20:6

General references

Bible References

Not

Even human anger praises you; you will wear the survivors of your wrath as an ornament.

Many plans occupy the mind of a man, but the LORD's purposes will prevail.

No wisdom, insight, or counsel can prevail against the LORD.

I declare from the beginning things to follow, and from ancient times things that have not yet been done; saying, "My purpose will stand, and he will accomplish everything that I please.'

Who can command, and it happens, without the Lord having ordered it?

because they kept saying, "This must not happen during the festival. Otherwise, there'll be a riot among the people."

Then the day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread came, on which the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed.

Then Jesus was led from Caiaphas to the governor's headquarters early in the morning. The Jews did not go into the headquarters, to avoid becoming unclean and unable to eat the Passover meal.

to carry out everything that your hand and will had predetermined to take place.

Lest

Although Herod wanted to kill him, he was afraid of the crowd, since they regarded John as a prophet.

They began discussing this among themselves: "If we say, "From heaven,' he will ask us, "Then why didn't you believe him?' But if we say, "From humans,' we are afraid of the crowd, because everyone regards John as a prophet."

But if we say, "From humans,' all the people will stone us to death, because they are convinced that John was a prophet."

General references

Then Herod secretly called together the wise men, found out from them the time the star had appeared,

At every festival the governor had a custom of releasing to the crowd any prisoner whom they wanted.

At every festival, Pilate would release any one prisoner whom the people requested.

So the high priests and the scribes were looking for a way to put him to death, because they were afraid of the crowd.