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19 So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the whole world[a] has gone after him.”(A)

The Coming of Jesus’ Hour.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 12:19 The whole world: the sense is that everyone is following Jesus, but John has an ironic play on world; he alludes to the universality of salvation (Jn 3:17; 4:42).
  2. 12:20–36 This announcement of glorification by death is an illustration of “the whole world” (Jn 12:19) going after him.

[a]Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, (A)and they consulted together to arrest Jesus by treachery and put him to death. But they said, “Not during the festival,[b] that there may not be a riot among the people.”

The Anointing at Bethany.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 26:3 Caiaphas was high priest from A.D. 18 to 36.
  2. 26:5 Not during the festival: the plan to delay Jesus’ arrest and execution until after the festival was not carried out, for according to the synoptics he was arrested on the night of Nisan 14 and put to death the following day. No reason is given why the plan was changed.
  3. 26:6–13 See notes on Mk 14:3–9 and Jn 12:1–8.

(A)and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking a way to put him to death, for they were afraid of the people.

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16 “What are we to do with these men? Everyone living in Jerusalem knows that a remarkable sign was done through them, and we cannot deny it.

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