John 12:10

Simplified Cowboy Version

Lazarus's fame had him on the radar of the church's head honchos. They planned to kill him too.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But the chief priests had decided to kill Lazarus also,

King James Version (1611)
But the chiefe Priests consulted, that they might put Lazarus also to death,

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

English Standard Version
So the chief priests made plans to put Lazarus to death as well,

New American Standard Bible
But the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death also,

New Century Version
So the leading priests made plans to kill Lazarus, too.

Amplified Bible
So the chief priests planned to kill Lazarus also,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
But the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death also;

Legacy Standard Bible
But the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death also;

Berean Standard Bible
So the chief priests made plans to kill Lazarus as well,

Contemporary English Version
So the chief priests made plans to kill Lazarus.

Complete Jewish Bible
The head cohanim then decided to do away with El‘azar too,

Darby Translation
But the chief priests took counsel that they might kill Lazarus also,

Easy-to-Read Version
So the leading priests made plans to kill Lazarus too.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The hie Priestes therefore consulted, that they might put Lazarus to death also,

George Lamsa Translation
And the high priests were thinking of killing Lazarus also;

Good News Translation
So the chief priests made plans to kill Lazarus too,

Lexham English Bible
So the chief priests decided that they would kill Lazarus also,

Literal Translation
But the chief priests took counsel that they might put Lazarus to death also,

American Standard Version
But the chief priests took counsel that they might put Lazarus also to death;

Bible in Basic English
Now there was talk among the chief priests of putting Lazarus to death;

Hebrew Names Version
But the chief Kohanim conspired to also put El'azar to death,

International Standard Version
So the high priests planned to kill Lazarus, too,Luke 16:31;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
But the chief priests were minded to slay Loozar also,

Murdock Translation
And the chief priests deliberated about killing even Lazarus:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But the hye priestes helde a councell, that they myght put Lazarus to death also,

English Revised Version
But the chief priests took counsel that they might put Lazarus also to death;

World English Bible
But the chief priests conspired to also put Lazarus to death,

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
But the chief priests consulted, how to kill Lazarus also.

Weymouth's New Testament
The High Priests, however, consulted together to put Lazarus also to death,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But the princis of prestis thouyten to sle Lazarus,

Update Bible Version
But the chief priests took counsel that they might put Lazarus also to death;

Webster's Bible Translation
But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;

New English Translation
So the chief priests planned to kill Lazarus too,

New King James Version
But the chief priests plotted to put Lazarus to death also,

New Living Translation
Then the leading priests decided to kill Lazarus, too,

New Life Bible
The religious leaders of the Jews talked together about having Lazarus killed also.

New Revised Standard
So the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death as well,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But the High-priests took counsel, that Lazarus also, they might put to death;

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the chief priests thought to kill Lazarus also:

Revised Standard Version
So the chief priests planned to put Laz'arus also to death,

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
The hye prestes therfore held a counsell that they myght put Lazarus to deeth also

Young's Literal Translation
and the chief priests took counsel, that also Lazarus they may kill,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But ye hye prestes were aduysed to put Lazarus to death also:

Mace New Testament (1729)
for the chief priests had resolved to put even Lazarus to death;

Contextual Overview

¹Six days before the Passover party, Jesus rode up to Bethany to visit Lazarus and his sisters. ²A meal was prepared in Jesus's honor. ³Then Mary got a bottle of priceless perfume and poured it on Jesus's feet. She wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with a pleasing aroma. ⁴But Judas Iscariot, the cowboy who would later double-cross Jesus, said, ⁵"Why is she wasting that perfume? We could've sold that and given money to the poor. That cost a year's wages." ⁶He didn't care about the poor. He was the treasurer of the ministry and dipped his hand into the cookie jar all the time. ⁷"Let her alone," Jesus said. "She's preparing my body for the day of my death. ⁸The poor will always be around, but I won't." ⁹When word got out that Jesus was in town, people came from all around to see him and the man who had come back from the dead. ¹⁰Lazarus's fame had him on the radar of the church's head honchos. They planned to kill him too.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

John 11:47-53, John 11:57, Genesis 4:4-10, Exodus 10:3, Job 15:25, Job 15:26, Job 40:8, Job 40:9, Ecclesiastes 9:3, Daniel 5:21-23, Matthew 2:3-8, Matthew 2:16, Luke 16:31

Reciprocal: Genesis 37:20 - and we 1 Kings 12:26 - Now shall Ecclesiastes 10:13 - beginning Daniel 6:7 - have consulted Matthew 28:12 - General Luke 19:39 - rebuke John 11:1 - Now John 11:53 - put John 12:2 - Lazarus John 15:24 - If Acts 5:17 - the high Acts 12:19 - commanded Hebrews 12:3 - contradiction

Cross-References

John 16:33
I've told you all of this so you will be able to be calm. While you ride for me, you'll have plenty of trouble, but keep your chin up! I have conquered this world."

Acts 7:11
"But a drought struck the area of Egypt and Canaan. A lot of people died when the food ran out.

Acts 14:22
On their way through, they stopped and checked with all the cowboys who had started riding for God. They encouraged them to be strong and faithful. They reminded them it ain't easy to cowboy for God's outfit and there would be hard times gathering remnants out of the brush.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But the chief priests,.... With the rest of the sanhedrim:

consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death; as well as Jesus, and that for no other crime, but because he was raised from the dead by him; which shows what consciences these men had, and how horribly wicked they were; that they stopped at nothing, whereby they might satisfy their malice and envy, and secure their worldly interests and advantages.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

That they might put Lazarus also to death - When men are determined not to believe the gospel, there is no end to the crimes to which they are driven. Lazarus was alive, and the evidence of his resurrection was so clear that they could not resist it. They could neither deny it, nor prevent its effect on the people. As it was determined to kill Jesus, so they consulted about the propriety of removing Lazarus first, that the number of his followers might be lessened, and that the death of Jesus might make less commotion. Unbelief stops at no crime. Lazarus was innocent; they could bring no charge against him; but they deliberately plotted murder rather than believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 12:10. Consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death. — As long as he lived they saw an incontestable proof of the Divine power of Christ; therefore they wished to put him to death, because many of the Jews, who came to see him through curiosity, became converts to Christ through his testimony. How blind were these men not to perceive that he who had raised him, after he had been dead four days, could raise him again though they had slain him a thousand times?