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John 12:9

American Standard Version

The common people therefore of the Jews learned 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.

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John 12:9 in other translations

A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned 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.

John 12:9 · World English Bible

John 12:9 in context

  1. 7Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to keep it against the day of my burying.
  2. 8For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.
  3. 9The common people therefore of the Jews learned 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.
  4. 10But the chief priests took counsel that they might put Lazarus also to death;
  5. 11because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.