Matthew 26:5
King James Version
“But they said, Not on the feast lest there be an uproar among the people.”
Context
2Ye know that after two days is the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.
3Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
4And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill
5But they said, Not on the feast lest there be an uproar among the people.
6Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
7There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat
8But when his disciples saw they had indignation, saying, To what purpose this waste?