John 12:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Now the people who were with him when his voice came to Lazarus in the place of the dead, and gave him life again, had been talking about it.

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  • Ps 145:6-7 : 6 Men will be talking of the power and fear of your acts; I will give word of your glory. 7 Their sayings will be full of the memory of all your mercy, and they will make songs of your righteousness.
  • John 1:19 : 19 And this is the witness of John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to him with the question, Who are you?
  • John 1:32 : 32 And John gave this witness, saying, I saw the Spirit coming down from heaven like a dove and resting on him.
  • John 1:34 : 34 This I saw myself and my witness is that he is the Son of God.
  • John 5:35-39 : 35 He was a burning and shining light, and for a time you were ready to be happy in his light. 36 But the witness which I have is greater than that of John: the work which the Father has given me to do, the very work which I am now doing, is a witness that the Father has sent me. 37 And the Father himself who sent me has given witness about me. Not one of you has ever given ear to his voice; his form you have not seen. 38 And you have not kept his word in your hearts, because you have not faith in him whom he has sent. 39 You make search in the holy Writings, in the belief that through them you get eternal life; and it is those Writings which give witness about me.
  • John 8:13-14 : 13 So the Pharisees said to him, The witness you give is about yourself: your witness is not true. 14 Jesus said in answer, Even if I give witness about myself, my witness is true, because I have knowledge of where I came from and where I am going; but you have no knowledge of where I come from or of where I am going.
  • John 11:31 : 31 Then the Jews who were with her in the house, comforting her, when they saw Mary get up quickly and go out, went after her in the belief that she was going to the place of the dead and would be weeping there.
  • John 11:42 : 42 I was certain that your ears are at all times open to me, but I said it because of these who are here, so that they may see that you sent me.
  • John 11:45-46 : 45 Then a number of the Jews who had come to Mary and had seen the things which Jesus did had belief in him. 46 But some of them went to the Pharisees with the news of what Jesus had done.
  • John 12:9 : 9 Then a great number of the Jews had news that he was there: and they came, not only because of Jesus, but so that they might see Lazarus who had been dead and to whom he had given life.
  • John 15:26-27 : 26 When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father even the Spirit of true knowledge who comes from the Father--he will give witness about me; 27 And you, in addition, will give witness because you have been with me from the first.
  • John 19:35 : 35 And he who saw it has given witness (and his witness is true; he is certain that what he says is true) so that you may have belief.
  • John 21:24 : 24 This is the disciple who gives witness about these things and who put them in writing: and we have knowledge that his witness is true.
  • Acts 1:22 : 22 Starting from the baptism of John till he went up from us, one will have to be a witness with us of his coming back from death.
  • Acts 5:32 : 32 And we are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who keep his laws.
  • 1 John 5:9-9 : 9 If we take the witness of men to be true, the witness of God is greater: because this is the witness which God has given about his Son. 10 He who has faith in the Son of God has the witness in himself: he who has not faith in God makes him false, because he has not faith in the witness which God has given about his Son. 11 And his witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.
  • Rev 1:2 : 2 Who gave witness of the word of God, and of the witness of Jesus Christ, even of all the things which he saw.

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    18 And that was the reason the people went out to him, because it had come to their ears that he had done this sign.

  • John 12:9-12
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    9 Then a great number of the Jews had news that he was there: and they came, not only because of Jesus, but so that they might see Lazarus who had been dead and to whom he had given life.

    10 Now there was talk among the chief priests of putting Lazarus to death;

    11 For because of him a great number of the Jews went away and had belief in Jesus.

    12 The day after, a great number of people who were there for the feast, when they had the news that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

  • John 12:1-2
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    1 Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had made to come back from the dead.

    2 So they made him a meal there, and he was waited on by Martha, and Lazarus was among those who were seated with him at table.

  • John 11:41-45
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    41 So they took away the stone. And Jesus, looking up to heaven, said, Father, I give praise to you for hearing me.

    42 I was certain that your ears are at all times open to me, but I said it because of these who are here, so that they may see that you sent me.

    43 Then he said in a loud voice, Lazarus, come out!

    44 And he who was dead came out, with linen bands folded tightly about his hands and feet, and a cloth about his face. Jesus said to them, Make him free and let him go.

    45 Then a number of the Jews who had come to Mary and had seen the things which Jesus did had belief in him.

  • John 12:16
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    16 (These things were not clear to his disciples at first: but when Jesus had been lifted up into his glory, then it came to their minds that these things in the Writings were about him and that they had been done to him.)

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    17 Now when Jesus came, he made the discovery that Lazarus had been put into the earth four days before.

  • John 2:22
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    22 So when he had come back again from the dead, the memory of these words came back to the disciples, and they had faith in the holy Writings and in the word which Jesus had said.

  • Acts 13:30-31
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    30 But God gave him back from the dead:

    31 And for a number of days he was seen by those who came with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses before the people.

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    36 So the Jews said, See how dear he was to him!

    37 But some of them said, This man, who made open the eyes of the blind man, was he not able to keep his friend from death?

    38 So Jesus, deeply troubled in heart, came to the place of the dead. It was a hole in the rock, and a stone was over the opening.

    39 Jesus said, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said, Lord, by this time the body will be smelling, for he has been dead four days.

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    14 Then Jesus said to them clearly, Lazarus is dead.

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  • John 11:11-12
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    11 These things said he: and after that he said to them, Lazarus our friend is at rest; but I go so that I may make him come out of his sleep.

    12 Then his disciples said to him, Lord, if he is resting he will get well.

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  • John 11:30-31
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    30 Now Jesus had not at this time come into the town, but was still in the place where Martha had seen him.

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    4 When this came to his ears, Jesus said, The end of this disease is not death, but the glory of God, so that the Son of God may have glory because of it.

    5 Now Jesus had love in his heart for Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

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    12 And his disciples came, and took up his body and put it in the earth; and they went and gave Jesus news of what had taken place.

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    23 Jesus said to her, Your brother will come to life again.

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    12 Then they put to him the question: Who is the man who said to you, Take it up and go?

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    37 But though he had done such a number of signs before them, they still had no belief in him:

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    2 Who gave witness of the word of God, and of the witness of Jesus Christ, even of all the things which he saw.

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    10 And they kept the saying, questioning among themselves what the coming back from the dead might be.

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    29 And when his disciples had news of it, they came and took up his body, and put it in its last resting-place.