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Clearly, according to the gospel of John, the raising of Lazarus was the immediate catalyst for the arrest and execution of Jesus. The miracle was simply too obvious and far too spectacular to ignore. The Jewish leadership may not have believed it to have been a genuine miracle — they most likely didn’t — but they knew that a very great number of their fellow Jews did. It was creating a very volatile situation.
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