John 12:18

This, indeed, was why the crowd met him – because people had heard that he had given this sign of his mission.

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In The King James Version

For this cause the people also met him, for that they heard that he had done this miracle.

In Context

17Meanwhile the people who were with him, when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead, were telling what they had seen.

19So the Pharisees said to one another, ‘You see that you are gaining nothing! Why, all the world has run after him!’

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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 →

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