But they said, "Not in the feast day, lest any business arise among the people."

And a convenient day being come, when Herod on his birth-day made a feast, for his lords, captains, and principal men of Galilee:

On the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread--the day for killing the Passover lamb--His disciples asked Him, "Where shall we go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?"

It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes made designs how they might take him by deceit and put him to death:

Now at the feast every year he let one prisoner go free at their request.