14:1 Two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the chief priests and the experts in the law 2 were trying to find a way 3 to arrest Jesus 4 by stealth and kill him.
1 tn Grk “in that hour.”
2 tn Or “the chief priests and the scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 1:22.
3 tn Grk “were seeking how.”
4 tn Grk “him”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Grk “and”; καί (kai) is elastic enough to be used contrastively on occasion, as here.
6 tn Grk “But so that”; the verb “has happened” is implied.