John 12:10

Wherefore the chief priests took counsel to put Lazarus also to death.

1770 John Worsley NT

In The King James Version

But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;

In Context

9And a great number of the Jews understanding that He was there, came not only on account of Jesus, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom He had raised from the dead.

11Because on his account many of the Jews went away from them, and believed on Jesus.

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Cross References

Matthew 2:16Then Herod, when he saw that he was baffled by the wise-men, was very much enraged; and he sent and slew all the male-children in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had exactly inquired of the wise-men.

John 11:47Therefore the chief priests and the pharisees held a council and said, What are we doing? for this man worketh many miracles.

Matthew Henry on John 12:2-12

Mary Anoints Christ's Feet; Hypocrisy of Judas; Indignation of the Chief Priests. 1 Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. 2 There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him. 3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment. 4 Then… Read the whole commentary →

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