John 12:19
The Pharisees therefore said among themselves: Do you see that we prevail nothing? Behold, the whole world is gone after him.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
In Context
18For which reason also the people came to meet him, because they heard that he had done this miracle.
20Now there were certain Gentiles among them, who came up to adore on the festival day.
Cross References
Isaiah 27:6When they shall rush in unto Jacob, Israel shall blossom and bud, and they shall fill the face of the world with seed. When they shall rush in, etc... Some understand this of the enemies of the true Israel, that shall invade it in vain. Others of the spiritual invasion made by the apostles of Christ.
Luke 19:47And he was teaching daily in the temple. And the chief priests and the scribes and the rulers of the people sought to destroy him.
John 11:47The chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees gathered a council and said: What do we, for this man doth many miracles?
Acts 4:16Saying: What shall we do to these men? For indeed a miracle hath been done by them, known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. It is manifest: and we cannot deny it.
Acts 17:6And not finding them, they drew Jason and certain brethren to the rulers of the city, crying: They that set the city in an uproar are come hither also: City. Urbem... In the Greek, the world.
Matthew Henry on John 12:13-20
Christ's Entrance into Jerusalem 12 On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, 13 Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord. 14 And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written, 15 Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt. 16 These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when… Read the whole commentary →