John Chapter 12 verse 18 Holy Bible
For this cause also the multitude went and met him, for that they heard that he had done this sign.
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And that was the reason the people went out to him, because it had come to their ears that he had done this sign.
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Therefore also the crowd met him because they had heard that he had done this sign.
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For this cause the people also met him, for that they heard that he had done this miracle.
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For this cause also the multitude went and met him, because they heard that he had done this sign.
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because of this also did the multitude meet him, because they heard of his having done this sign,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - For this cause also the (ὁ ὄχλος) multitude - which here seems to be the aggregate of the (ὄχλος πολύς) crowds made up of the Judaean and Galilaean pilgrims and "the Jews" who had believed on him - met him (see especially vers. 12, 13) - went forth, and cut down the branches of the palm trees, and came in high jubilance to meet him - because they heard that he had wrought this sign. The resurrection of Lazarus is the motive of the triumphal procession. The synoptists, who have omitted the whole episode of Bethany, are naturally silent concerning the impression produced by it on the Passover pilgrims and the Jerusalem crowd. John, more intimately acquainted with the currents of thought in the capital than the rest, drew here from his experience and memory, and has preserved historical features which they had ignored.
Ellicott's 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.
