John 12:10

Young's Literal Translation

and the chief priests took counsel, that also Lazarus they may kill,

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

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;

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

Contextual Overview

¹ Jesus, therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where was Lazarus, who had died, whom he raised out of the dead; ² they made, therefore, to him a supper there, and Martha was ministering, and Lazarus was one of those reclining together (at meat) with him; ³ Mary, therefore, having taken a pound of ointment of spikenard, of great price, anointed the feet of Jesus and did wipe with her hair his feet, and the house was filled from the fragrance of the ointment. ⁴ Therefore saith one of his disciples -- Judas Iscariot, of Simon, who is about to deliver him up -- ⁵ `Wherefore was not this ointment sold for three hundred denaries, and given to the poor?' <sup>6</sup> and he said this, not because he was caring for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and what things were put in he was carrying. <sup>7</sup> Jesus, therefore, said, `Suffer her; for the day of my embalming she hath kept it, ⁸ for the poor ye have always with yourselves, and me ye have not always.' ⁹ A great multitude, therefore, of the Jews knew that he is there, and they came, not because of Jesus only, but that Lazarus also they may see, whom he raised out of the dead; ¹⁰ and the chief priests took counsel, that also Lazarus they may kill,

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

Genesis 12:1
And Jehovah saith unto Abram, `Go for thyself, from thy land, and from thy kindred, and from the house of thy father, unto the land which I shew thee.

Genesis 12:2
And I make thee become a great nation, and bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing.

Genesis 12:3
And I bless those blessing thee, and him who is disesteeming thee I curse, and blessed in thee have been all families of the ground.'

Genesis 12:4
And Abram goeth on, as Jehovah hath spoken unto him, and Lot goeth with him, and Abram [is] a son of five and seventy years in his going out from Charan.

Genesis 12:8
And he removeth from thence towards a mountain at the east of Beth-El, and stretcheth out the tent (Beth-El at the west, and Hai at the east), and he buildeth there an altar to Jehovah, and preacheth in the name of Jehovah.

Genesis 12:18
And Pharaoh calleth for Abram, and saith, `What [is] this thou hast done to me? why hast thou not declared to me that she [is] thy wife?

Genesis 42:5
And the sons of Israel come to buy in the midst of those coming, for the famine hath been in the land of Canaan,

Genesis 43:1
And the famine [is] severe in the land;

Genesis 47:13
And there is no bread in all the land, for the famine [is] very grievous, and the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan are feeble because of the famine;

Ruth 1:1
And it cometh to pass, in the days of the judging of the judges, that there is a famine in the land, and there goeth a man from Beth-Lehem-Judah to sojourn in the fields of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.

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?