Mar 14:1 | HCSB | STEP | After two days it was the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread . The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a treacherous way to arrest and kill Him .

Mark 14:1

1 After ^a two days it was the ^{▼▼Passover: The Israelite festival celebrated on the fourteenth day of the first month in the early spring. It was a celebration of the deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt, commemorating the final plague on Egypt when the firstborn were killed.}Passover ^c and the Festival ^d of ^{▼▼Unleavened Bread: A seven-day festival celebrated in conjunction with the Passover; Ex 12:1-20}Unleavened Bread. ^f The ^{▼▼chief priest(s): A group of Jewish temple officers that included the highpriest, captain of the temple, temple overseers, and treasurers}chief priests and the ^{▼▼scribe(s): A professional group in Judaism that copied the law of Moses and interpreted it, especially in legal cases}scribes ⁱ were looking for a treacherous ^j way to arrest and kill Him. ^k