John Calvin Commentary John 12:10

"But the chief priests took counsel that they might put Lazarus also to death;" — John 12:10 (ASV)

Now the chief priests consulted. It certainly was worse than insane fury to endeavor to put to death one who had manifestly been raised from the dead by divine power.

But such is the spirit of reckless folly with which Satan torments the wicked, so that there is no end of their madness, even though God should bring heaven, earth, and sea to oppose them.

For this wicked consultation is thus described to inform us that the enemies of Christ were led to such great obstinacy, not by mistake or folly, but by furious wickedness, so that they did not even shrink from making war against God.

It is also described to inform us that the power of God was not dimly seen in the resurrection of Lazarus, since ungodliness could contrive no other method of banishing it from memory than by committing a vile and shocking murder on an innocent man.

Besides, since Satan labors with his utmost strength utterly to bury, or at least in some measure to obscure, the works of God, it is our duty to devote ourselves diligently to continual meditation on them.