1 After two days followed Easter, and the days of sweet bread. And the high priests and the scribes sought means, how they might take him by craft and put him to death.
Mark 14:1 Cross References - MSTC
Exodus 12:6-20
6 And ye shall keep him inward, until the fourteenth day of the same month. And every man of the multitude of Israel shall kill him about even.
7 And they shall take of the blood and strike on the two side posts and on the upper doorpost of the houses, wherein they eat him.
8 And they shall eat the flesh the same night, roast with fire, and with unleavened bread, and with sour herbs they shall eat it.
9 See that ye eat not thereof sodden in water, but roast with fire: both head, feet, and purtenance together.
10 And see that ye let nothing of it remain unto the morning: if ought remain, burn it with fire.
11 Of this manner shall ye eat it: with your loins girded, and shoes on your feet, and your staves in your hands. And ye shall eat it in haste; for it is the LORD's Passover.
12 "For I will go about in the land of Egypt this same night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of man and beast, and upon all the gods of Egypt will I the LORD do execution.
13 And the blood shall be unto you a token, upon the houses wherein ye are; for when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
14 And this day shall be unto you a remembrance, and ye shall keep it holy unto the LORD: even throughout your generations after you shall ye keep it holy day, that it be a custom forever.
15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread, so that even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses. For whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be plucked out from Israel.
16 "The first day shall be a holy feast unto you, and the seventh also. There shall be no manner of work done in them, save about that only which every man must eat: that only may ye do.
17 And see that ye keep you to unleavened bread. For upon that same day I will bring your armies out of the land of Egypt, therefore ye shall observe this day and all your children after you, that it be a custom forever.
18 The first month and the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat sweet bread unto the twenty-first day of the month at even again.
19 Seven days see that there be no leavened bread found in your houses. For whosoever eateth leavened bread, that soul shall be rooted out from the multitude of Israel: whether he be a stranger or born in the land.
20 Therefore see that ye eat no leavened bread, but in all your habitations eat sweet bread."
Leviticus 23:5-7
Numbers 28:16-25
16 And the fourteenth day of the first month shall be Passover unto the LORD.
17 And the fifteenth day of the same month shall be a feast, in which seven days men must eat unleavened bread.
18 The first day shall be a holy feast, so that ye shall do no manner of laborious work therein.
19 And ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD, two bullocks, one ram, and seven lambs of a year old without spot,
20 and their meat offering of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto a bullock, and two tenth deals unto a ram,
21 and evermore one tenth deal unto a lamb, throughout the seven lambs:
22 and a he-goat for a sin offering to make an atonement for you.
23 And ye shall offer these, beside the burnt offering in the morning that is always offered.
24 And after this manner ye shall offer throughout the seven days, the food of the sacrifice of sweet favour unto the LORD. And it shall be done beside the daily burnt offering and his drink offering.
25 And the seventh day shall be a holy feast unto you, so that ye shall do no laborious work therein.
Deuteronomy 16:1-8
1 Observe the month of Abib, and offer Passover unto the LORD thy God. For in the month of Abib, the LORD thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night:
2 Thou shalt therefore offer Passover unto the LORD thy God, and sheep and oxen in the place which the LORD shall choose to make his name dwell there.
3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread therewith: but shalt eat therewith the bread of tribulation seven days long. For thou camest out of the land of Egypt in haste, that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest out of the land of Egypt, all days of thy life.
4 And see that there be no leavened bread seen in all thy coasts seven days long, and that there remain nothing of the flesh which thou hast offered the first day at evening, until the morning.
5 Thou mayest not offer Passover in any of thy cities which the LORD thy God giveth thee:
6 But in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to make his name dwell in, there thou shalt offer Passover at evening about the going down of the sun, even in the season that thou camest out of Egypt.
7 And thou shalt seethe and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen, and depart on the morrow and get thee unto thy tent.
8 Six days thou shalt eat sweet bread, and the seventh day is for the people to come together to the LORD thy God, that thou mayest do no work.
Psalms 2:1-5
1 W hy did the heathen rage and the people imagine vain things?
2 The kings of the earth stood up and the rulers came together against the LORD, and against his Christ.
3 Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
4 He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to scorn: the Lord shall have them in derision.
5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure,
Psalms 52:3
3 Thou lovest ungraciousness more than good, to talk of lies more than righteousness. Selah.
Psalms 62:4
4 Their device is only how to put him out, whom God will exalt; their delight is in lies. They give good words with their mouth, but curse with their heart. Selah.
Psalms 62:9
9 As for men they are but vanity; the children of men are deceitful. Upon the weights they are altogether lighter than vanity itself.
Psalms 64:2-6
2 Hide me from the gathering together of the froward, and from the insurrection of wicked doers,
3 who have whet their tongue like a sword, and shoot out their arrows, even bitter words,
4 That they may privily hurt the innocent, and suddenly hit him without any fear.
5 They have devised mischief, and communed among themselves how they may lay snares. "Tush," say they, "Who shall see them?"
6 They imagine wickedness, and keep it secret among themselves; every man in the deep of his heart.
Matthew 6:2
2 Whensoever therefore thou givest thine alms, thou shalt not make a trumpet to be blown before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues, and in the streets, for to be praised of men. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward.
Matthew 12:14
14 Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.
Matthew 26:2-5
2 "Ye know that after two days shall be Easter, and the son of man shall be delivered to be crucified."
3 Then assembled together the chief priests and the scribes and the elders of the people into the palace of the high priest, called Caiaphas:
4 and held a counsel, how they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him.
5 But they said, "Not on the holy day, lest any uproar arise among the people."
Luke 22:1-2
John 11:47
47 Then gathered the high priests and the Pharisees a council and said, "What do we? This man doeth many miracles.
John 11:53-57
53 From that day forth they held a counsel together for to put him to death.
54 Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews: but went his way thence unto a country nigh to a wilderness into a city called Ephraim, and there haunted with his disciples.
55 And the Jews' Easter was nigh at hand, and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the Easter to purify themselves.
56 Then sought they for Jesus, and spake between themselves, as they stood in the temple, "What think ye, seeing he cometh not to the feast?"
57 The high priests and Pharisees had given a commandment that if any man knew where he were, he should show it that they might take him.
John 13:1
1 Before the feast of Easter, when Jesus knew that his hour was come, that he should depart out of this world unto the father; When he loved his which were in the world, unto the end he loved them;
Acts 4:25-28
25 which by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, 'Why did the heathen rage and the people imagine vain things?
26 The kings of the earth stood up and the rulers came together against the Lord, and against his Christ.'
27 For of a truth, against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and also Pontius Pilate with the gentiles, and the people of Israel, gathered themselves together:
28 for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.