A large number of people heard that Jesus was in Bethany, so they went there, not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom Jesus had raised from death.
David himself called him ‘Lord’; so how can the Messiah be David's descendant?” A large crowd was listening to Jesus gladly.
Six days before the Passover, Jesus went to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, the man he had raised from death.
So the chief priests made plans to kill Lazarus too,
The next day the large crowd that had come to the Passover Festival heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.
The people who had been with Jesus when he called Lazarus out of the grave and raised him from death had reported what had happened.
But there was nothing that they could say, because they saw the man who had been healed standing there with Peter and John.