Original sentence: In some places of western English-speaking society, the phrase "Jesus wept" is a common expletive, curse or minced oath spoken when something goes wrong.The resurrection of Lazarus and subsequent growth in the number of Jewish followers of Jesus' teachings came to the attention of the Jewish priests.This, along with fear from retribution from the Romans, led to the Jewish leadership's decision to turn Jesus over to Pontius Pilate for execution (John 11:45-53, 18:31)
Edited sentence: In western English-speaking society, the phrase "Jesus wept" is a common expletive, curse or minced oath spoken when something goes wrong.The resurrection of Lazarus came to the attention of the Jewish priests and because of the many subsequent conversions of the Jewish to Jesus' teachings, this was one of the aspects that led to their conspiracy to have Jesus killed