But they said, Not on the feast-day, lest there should 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 from them, and then they will 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 hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.