John 12:19

So the Pharisees said to one another: “You see that you are gaining nothing! Why, all the world has run after him!”

Twentieth Century New Testament

In The King James Version

The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.

In Context

18This, indeed, was why the crowd met him — because people had heard that he had given this sign of his mission.

20Among those who were going up to worship at the Festival were some Greeks,

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Cross References

Luke 19:47Jesus continued to teach each day in the Temple Courts; but the Chief Priests and Teachers of the Law were eager to take his life, and so also were the leading men.

John 11:47Upon this the Chief Priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the High Council, and said: “What are we to do, now that this man is giving so many signs?

Acts 4:16“What are we to do to these men?” they asked one another. “That a remarkable sign has been given through them is obvious to every one living in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.

Acts 17:6and, not finding them there, they proceeded to drag Jason and some of the Brethren before the City Magistrates, shouting out: “These men, who have turned the world upside down, have now come here,

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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