<p>12:18 <i>For this cause also the crowd went and met him, for they heard that he had done this miracle</i>- As noted on :17, John is stressing that the crowd so manic for the Lord to &quot;save now&quot;, who welcomed Him into Jerusalem, was the crowd motivated by the resurrection of Lazarus. This was all planned by the Lord; He was winding them up to a peak of popularist support for Him, and then through the triumphal entry being the very opposite of their hopes, in fact a mocking of traditional Messianic expectation... He was setting them up to then turn against Him. See on :12 and :17.</p>