John 12:14-24

14 And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written,

15 ¹“Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey’s colt! ”

16 ²His disciples did not understand these things at first, but ³when Jesus was glorified, then ⁴they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him.

17 ⁵The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to bear witness.

18 The reason why the crowd went to meet him ⁶was that they heard he had done this sign.

19 So the Pharisees said to one another, ⁷“You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, ⁸the world has gone after him. ”

Some Greeks Seek Jesus

20 Now ⁹among those who went up to worship at the feast were some ¹⁰Greeks.

21 So these came to ¹¹Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus. ”

22 Philip went and told ¹²Andrew; Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.

23 And Jesus answered them, ¹³“The hour has come ¹⁴for the Son of Man to be glorified.

24 Truly, truly, I say to you, ¹⁵unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.