“But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.”
But not during the festival, they said, or the people may riot — the explicit fear of the people drives the timing calculation: not during the festival. The Passover crowd swelled Jerusalem's population from 40,000 to hundreds of thousands, and the pilgrims who welcomed Jesus on Palm Sunday are present. Judas's offer (verse 10) will provide the solution: an arrest away from the crowds, at night, in the garden.
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