John 12:1–19

¹Jesus, therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where was Lazarus, who had died, whom he raised out of the dead; ²they made, therefore, to him a supper there, and Martha was ministering, and Lazarus was one of those reclining together (at meat) with him; ³Mary, therefore, having taken a pound of ointment of spikenard, of great price, anointed the feet of Jesus and did wipe with her hair his feet, and the house was filled from the fragrance of the ointment. ⁴Therefore saith one of his disciples—Judas Iscariot, of Simon, who is about to deliver him up— ⁵‘Wherefore was not this ointment sold for three hundred denaries, and given to the poor?’ ⁶and he said this, not because he was caring for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and what things were put in he was carrying. ⁷Jesus, therefore, said, ‘Suffer her; for the day of my embalming she hath kept it, ⁸for the poor ye have always with yourselves, and me ye have not always.’ ⁹A great multitude, therefore, of the Jews knew that he is there, and they came, not because of Jesus only, but that Lazarus also they may see, whom he raised out of the dead; ¹⁰and the chief priests took counsel, that also Lazarus they may kill, ¹¹because on account of him many of the Jews were going away, and were believing in Jesus.

¹²On the morrow, a great multitude that came to the feast, having heard that Jesus doth come to Jerusalem, ¹³took the branches of the palms, and went forth to meet him, and were crying, ‘Hosanna, blessed is he who is coming in the name of the Lord—the king of Israel;’ ¹⁴and Jesus having found a young ass did sit upon it, according as it is written, ¹⁵‘Fear not, daughter of Sion, lo, thy king doth come, sitting on an ass’ colt.’ ¹⁶And these things his disciples did not know at the first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were having been written about him, and these things they did to him. ¹⁷The multitude, therefore, who are with him, were testifying that he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and did raise him out of the dead; ¹⁸because of this also did the multitude meet him, because they heard of his having done this sign, ¹⁹the Pharisees, therefore, said among themselves, ‘Ye see that ye do not gain anything, lo, the world did go after him.’