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

After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.

But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.

And except the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh would be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he has chosen, he has shortened the days.