Then the leading priests decided to kill Lazarus, too,
Parallel translations
- WEB But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,
- KJV But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;
- BSB So the chief priests made plans to kill Lazarus as well,
- NKJV But the chief priests plotted to put Lazarus to death also,
- NASB But the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death also,
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The chief priests plot to kill Lazarus too. They would silence the very evidence of Jesus' power.
Overview
The leaders extend their murderous intent to Lazarus, whose resurrection undermines their cause. Their plan reveals hardened unbelief, seeking to suppress undeniable testimony rather than submit to it. The irony is stark, for they would re-impose the death that Jesus had already overcome.
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- Luke 16:31“He said to him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.’”
- Matt 2:16Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.
- John 11:47–53The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.
- Gen 4:4–10Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering,
- Exod 10:3Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
- John 11:57Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.
- Dan 5:21–23and he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals’, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys; he was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will.
- Job 15:25–26Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty;
- Eccl 9:3This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
- Matt 2:3–8When King Herod heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
- Job 40:8–9Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
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