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John 12:10 KJV
John · chapter 12 · verse 10
But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;John 12:10 · King James Version
John 12:10 in context
8For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
9Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and they came not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
10But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;
11Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.
12On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- consultedbouleuōto deliberate with one s self, consider, to take counsel, resolveG1011 →
- priestsarchiereuschief priest, high priest, the high priests, these comprise in addition to one holding…G749 →
- LazaruslazarosLazarus = " whom God helps" , an inhabitant of Bethany, beloved by Christ and…G2976 →
- putapokteinōto kill in any way whatever, to destroy, to allow to perish, metaph. to extinguish…G615 →
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In these verses we have, I. The kind visit our Lord Jesus paid to his friends at Bethany, Joh 12:1. He came up out of the country, six days before the passover, and took up at Bethany, a town which, according to the computation of our metropolis, lay so near Jerusalem as to be within the bills of mortality.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-11