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John
  
2. Jesus enters Jerusalem
(John 12:9–19)
9When the great crowd of the Jews learned that he was there, they came, not only on account of Jesus, but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.10So the chief priests planned to put Lazarus also to death,11because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus.


The capital grew turbulent at the news that Jesus had visited Lazarus. The crowds hurried from Jerusalem to the Mount of Olives and Bethany to witness the miracle of life-giving.
High Priests leaned towards the Sadducees, even though the latter did not believe in the resurrection, nor in the existence of spirits. Yet they hated Jesus and Lazarus, to the extent that they not only rejected the miracle, but wished to kill the miracle worker, and put both into the grave, to prove that there is no hope after death. At the same time, they wished to demolish all faith in Jesus’ movement, since the crowds deemed the raising of Lazarus proof that Jesus was the true Messiah.