1 It was two days before Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and legal experts through cunning tricks were searching for a way to arrest Jesus and kill him.
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Now the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread were only two days away, and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were scheming to arrest Jesus secretly and kill him.
2 But they agreed that it shouldn't happen during the festival; otherwise, there would be an uproar among the people.
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“But not during the festival,” they said, “or the people may riot.”