But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be a commotion among the people.

NOW the passover and the feast of unleavened bread were but two days distant; and the chief priests, and the scribes, sought how they might seize him by craft, and kill him.

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 the days, no flesh would have been preserved: but for the sake of those elect, whom he hath elected, he hath shortened the days.