John 12:10

Easy-to-Read Version

So the leading priests made plans to kill Lazarus 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,

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;

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 Six days before the Passover festival, Jesus went to Bethany. That is where Lazarus lived, the man Jesus raised from death. ² There they had a dinner for Jesus. Martha served the food, and Lazarus was one of the people eating with Jesus. ³ Mary brought in a pint of expensive perfume made of pure nard. She poured the perfume on Jesus' feet. Then she wiped his feet with her hair. And the sweet smell from the perfume filled the whole house. ⁴ Judas Iscariot, one of Jesus' followers, was there—the one who would later hand Jesus over to his enemies. Judas said, ⁵ "That perfume was worth a full year's pay. It should have been sold, and the money should have been given to the poor people." ⁶ But Judas did not really care about the poor. He said this because he was a thief. He was the one who kept the moneybag for the group of followers. And he often stole money from the bag. ⁷ Jesus answered, "Don't stop her. It was right for her to save this perfume for today—the day for me to be prepared for burial. ⁸ You will always have those who are poor with you. But you will not always have me." ⁹ Many of the Jews heard that Jesus was in Bethany, so they went there to see him. They also went there to see Lazarus, the one Jesus raised from death. ¹⁰ So the leading priests made plans to kill Lazarus 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

Genesis 12:1
The Lord said to Abram, "Leave your country and your people. Leave your father's family and go to the country that I will show you.

Genesis 12:2
I will build a great nation from you. I will bless you and make your name famous. People will use your name to bless other people.

Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse those who curse you. I will use you to bless all the people on earth."

Genesis 12:4
So Abram left Haran just like the Lord said, and Lot went with him. Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran.

Genesis 12:8
Then he left that place and traveled to the mountains east of Bethel. He set up his tent there. Bethel was to the west, and Ai was to the east. Abram built another altar at that place to honor the Lord , and he worshiped the Lord there.

Genesis 12:18
Pharaoh called Abram and said to him, "You have done a very bad thing to me! Why didn't you tell me Sarai was your wife?

Genesis 42:5
The famine was very bad in Canaan, so there were many people from Canaan who went to Egypt to buy grain. Among them were the sons of Israel.

Genesis 43:1
The famine was very bad in that country.

Genesis 47:13
The famine got worse; there was no food anywhere in the land. Egypt and Canaan became very poor because of this bad time.

Ruth 1:1
Long ago, during the time the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, and a man named Elimelech left the town of Bethlehem in Judah. He, his wife, and his two sons moved to the country of Moab.

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?