Teks -- Mark 14:1 (NET)

The Plot Against Jesus

14:1 Two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the chief priests and the experts in the law were trying to find a way to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Robertson: Mar 14:1 - After two days

After two days ( meta duo hēmeras ).

This was Tuesday evening as we count time (beginning of the Jewish Wednesday). In Mat 26:2 Jesus is reported as naming this same date which would put it our Thursday evening, beginning of the Jewish Friday. The Gospel of John mentions five items that superficially considered seem to contradict this definite date in Mark and Matthew, but which are really in harmony with them. See discussion on Mat 26:17 and my Harmony of the Gospels , pp. 279 to 284. Mark calls it here the feast of "the passover and the unleavened bread,"both names covering the eight days. Sometimes "passover"is applied to only the first day, sometimes to the whole period. No sharp distinction in usage was observed.

Robertson: Mar 14:1 - Sought

Sought ( ezētoun ).

Imperfect tense. They were still at it, though prevented so far.

Vincent: Mar 14:1 - The feast of the passover and the unleavened bread

The feast of the passover and the unleavened bread ( τὸ πάσχα καὶ τὰ ἄζυμα )

Lit., the passover and the unleavened. It was really one and the same festival.

Vincent: Mar 14:1 - Sought

Sought ( ἐζήτουν )

Imperfect tense: were all this while seeking

Wesley: Mar 14:1

Mat 26:1; Luk 22:1.

JFB: Mar 14:1 - After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread

The meaning is, that two days after what is about to be mentioned the passover would arrive; in other words, what follows occurred two days before the feast.

JFB: Mar 14:1 - and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death

From Matthew's fuller account (Mat. 26:1-75) we learn that our Lord announced this to the Twelve as follows, being the first announcement to them of the precise time: "And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings" (Mat 26:1) --referring to the contents of Mat. 24:1-25:46, which He delivered to His disciples; His public ministry being now closed: from His prophetical He is now passing into His priestly office, although all along He Himself took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses--"He said unto His disciples, Ye know that after two days is [the feast of] the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified." The first and the last steps of His final sufferings are brought together in this brief announcement of all that was to take place. The passover was the first and the chief of the three great annual festivals, commemorative of the redemption of God's people from Egypt, through the sprinkling of the blood of a lamb divinely appointed to be slain for that end; the destroying angel, "when he saw the blood, passing over" the Israelitish houses, on which that blood was seen, when he came to destroy all the first-born in the land of Egypt (Exo 12:12-13) --bright typical foreshadowing of the great Sacrifice, and the Redemption effected thereby. Accordingly, "by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in working," it was so ordered that precisely at the passover season, "Christ our Passover should be sacrificed for us." On the day following the passover commenced "the feast of unleavened bread," so called because for seven days only unleavened bread was to be eaten (Exo 12:18-20). See on 1Co 5:6-8. We are further told by Matthew (Mat 26:3) that the consultation was held in the palace of Caiaphas the high priest, between the chief priests, [the scribes], and the elders of the people, how "they might take Jesus by subtlety and kill Him."

Clarke: Mar 14:1 - Unleavened bread

Unleavened bread - After they began to eat unleavened bread: see on Mat 26:2 (note).

TSK: Mar 14:1 - two // the passover // chief // by

two : Mat 6:2; Luk 22:1, Luk 22:2; Joh 11:53-57, Joh 13:1

the passover : Exo 12:6-20; Lev 23:5-7; Num 28:16-25; Deu 16:1-8

chief : Psa 2:1-5; Joh 11:47; Act 4:25-28

by : Psa 52:3, Psa 62:4, Psa 62:9, Psa 64:2-6; Mat 26:4

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Mar 14:1 - See Poole on "Mat 26:1"

Mar 14:1,2 The chief priests and scribes conspire against Christ.

Mar 14:3-9 A woman pours precious ointment on his head.

Mar 14:10,11 Judas covenants to betray him,

Mar 14:12-21 Christ eats the passover, and showeth that one of his

disciples should betray him.

Mar 14:22-26 He institutes his last supper,

Mar 14:27-31 foretells the desertion of all his disciples, and

Peter’ s denial of him.

Mar 14:32-42 His agony and prayer in the garden.

Mar 14:43-52 He is betrayed by Judas, and apprehended: his

disciples flee.

Mar 14:53-65 He is carried before the council, falsely accused,

examined, pronounced guilty and treated with indignity.

Mar 14:66-72 Peter’ s denial, and repentance.

Ver. 1,2. Matthew saith the same, only he bringeth it in as said to the disciples by Christ. This must be said upon that day in the week which we call Tuesday, for Friday was the passover day, when began the feast of unleavened bread.

See Poole on "Mat 26:1" , and following verses to Mat 26:5 .

Haydock: Mar 14:1 - Pasch

Though the evangelists generally use the words pasch and azymes promiscuously, yet St. Mark distinguishes them, being really different. The pasch is used for the 14th day of the moon of the first month. But the 15th day, on which they departed out of Egypt, was the feast of the azymes, or the unleavened bread; which continued seven days, till the 21st day of the moon inclusively. (Ven. Bede) ---

Pasch is also used for the sabbath day within the seven days of the solemnity; (John xix. 14.) and also for all the sacrifices made during the seven days of the feast.

Gill: Mar 14:1 - After two days was the feast of the passover // and of unleavened bread // And the chief priests and Scribes sought how they might take him by craft // and put him to death

After two days was the feast of the passover,.... That is, two days after Christ had delivered the foregoing discourse concerning the destruction of the temple at Jerusalem, was the feast of the passover; which was kept in commemoration of God's passing over the houses of the Israelites, when he destroyed the firstborn of Egypt, and made way for the deliverance of the children of Israel from thence: and which was kept by eating the passover lamb; and which, properly speaking, is the feast of the passover:

and of unleavened bread; which was the same feast with the other, called so from the unleavened bread which was then eaten; though with this difference, the passover lamb was only eaten on the first night, but unleavened bread was eaten for seven days together. The Syriac, Persic, and Ethiopic versions render it, "the passover of unleavened bread", leaving out the copulative "and".

And the chief priests and Scribes sought how they might take him by craft; that is, Jesus,

and put him to death: for which purpose they assembled together in Caiaphas the high priest's palace, and there took counsel together how to accomplish it; see Mat 26:2.