17The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record.
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Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.
If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. …
And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.
Much 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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-19)This story of Christ’s riding in triumph to Jerusalem is recorded by all the evangelists, as worthy of special remark; and in it we may observe, I. The respect that was paid to our Lord Jesus by the common people, John 12:12 , 13 , where we are told, 1. Who they were that paid him this respect: much people , ochlos polys — a great crowd of those that came up to the feast; not the inhabitants of Je…
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