John 11:53 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Bible Comments

‘So from that day onwards they took counsel that they might put him to death'.

The continual semi-official attempts to arrest him have not yet become the official policy of the Sanhedrin, the Jewish governing body, but His death was now determined by a large section of that body who would constantly seek ways to take Him. It is all so true to life. Their own interests were in danger so that it did not matter how wonderful what He had done was, what mattered was their own skins. They were panicking. It gave them no time to consider the wonder of what had happened. In fact they would get quite sick of hearing about Lazarus' reawakening and would think in terms of reversing it (John 12:10).

John 11:53

53 Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death.