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

Now the feast of the Passover and of Unleavened Bread was two days later. So the high priests and scribes kept looking for some way to arrest Him by stratagem and have Him put 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 unless the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened those days.

for those days will be days of misery, the like of which has never been from the beginning of God's creation until now ??no and never shall be.