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What does John 12:10 mean?

"But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,"

— John 12:10 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial.

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For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.”

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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.

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But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,

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because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.

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On the next day a great multitude had come to the feast. When they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

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they took the branches of the palm trees, and went out to meet him, and cried out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!”

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