King James Version
What Does John 12:18 Mean?
“For this cause the people also met him, for that they heard that he had done this miracle.”
Context
16
These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him.
17
The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record.
18
For this cause the people also met him, for that they heard that he had done this miracle.
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The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing ? behold, the world is gone after him.
20
And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(18) **For this cause the people**—*i.e.* (see last verse), the multitude of John 12:12.
**For that they heard . . . this miracle.**—The emphatic form of the sentence points out that the raising of Lazarus was the miracle which carried the entire conviction of the multitude. They had heard of and in some eases seen the miracles, but this stood by itself, as witness which could not be gainsaid.
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
Historical Context
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Theological Significance
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