John 12:11
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New International Version (©2011)
for on account of him many of the Jews were going over to Jesus and believing in him.

New Living Translation (©2007)
for it was because of him that many of the people had deserted them and believed in Jesus.

English Standard Version (©2001)
because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and were believing in Jesus.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
because he was the reason many of the Jews were deserting them and believing in Jesus.

International Standard Version (©2012)
since he was the reason why so many of the Jews were leaving to believe in Jesus.

NET Bible (©2006)
for on account of him many of the Jewish people from Jerusalem were going away and believing in Jesus.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
Because many of the Judeans were leaving because of him and believing in Yeshua.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Lazarus was the reason why many people were leaving the Jews and believing in Jesus.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.

American King James Version
Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.

American Standard Version
because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because many of the Jews, by reason of him, went away, and believed in Jesus.

Darby Bible Translation
because many of the Jews went away on his account and believed on Jesus.

English Revised Version
because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.

Webster's Bible Translation
Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.

Weymouth New Testament
for because of him many of the Jews left them and became believers in Jesus.

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

Young's Literal Translation
because on account of him many of the Jews were going away, and were believing in Jesus.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

12:1-11 Christ had formerly blamed Martha for being troubled with much serving. But she did not leave off serving, as some, who when found fault with for going too far in one way, peevishly run too far another way; she still served, but within hearing of Christ's gracious words. Mary gave a token of love to Christ, who had given real tokens of his love to her and her family. God's Anointed should be our Anointed. Has God poured on him the oil of gladness above his fellows, let us pour on him the ointment of our best affections. In Judas a foul sin is gilded over with a plausible pretence. We must not think that those do no acceptable service, who do it not in our way. The reigning love of money is heart-theft. The grace of Christ puts kind comments on pious words and actions, makes the best of what is amiss, and the most of what is good. Opportunities are to be improved; and those first and most vigorously, which are likely to be the shortest. To consult to hinder the further effect of the miracle, by putting Lazarus to death, is such wickedness, malice, and folly, as cannot be explained, except by the desperate enmity of the human heart against God. They resolved that the man should die whom the Lord had raised to life. The success of the gospel often makes wicked men so angry, that they speak and act as if they hoped to obtain a victory over the Almighty himself.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Because that by reason of him,.... Of the miracle which was wrought upon him, in raising him from the dead, of which he was a living and an abiding witness:

many of the Jews went away; not from Jerusalem only, but from the chief priests and Pharisees, and the rest of the Jews, that combined against Christ; they withdrew themselves from their party, and deserted them:

and believed on Jesus; as the Messiah; so that they found their interest was decreasing and weakening every day, and that those on the side of Christ were increasing; and this they could not bear, and therefore consulted to take away the life of Lazarus, as well as Jesus; who they imagined, as long as he lived, would be a means of inducing persons to believe in Jesus as the Messiah: whereas if he was dead, the fact would be forgotten, or be more easily denied.

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The Plot to Kill Lazarus
9Much people of the Jews therefore knew 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. 10But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death; 11Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.

John 7:31 Still, many in the crowd believed in him. They said, "When the Messiah comes, will he perform more signs than this man?"
John 11:42 I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me."
John 11:45 Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him.
John 12:10 So the chief priests made plans to kill Lazarus as well,
John 12:18 Many people, because they had heard that he had performed this sign, went out to meet him.
John 12:42 Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him. But because of the Pharisees they would not openly acknowledge their faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue;