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Jesus therefore said,
Suffer her to keep it against the day of my burying.
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For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.
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The common people therefore of the Jews learned that he was there: and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
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But the chief priests took counsel that they might put Lazarus also to death;
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because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.
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On the morrow a great multitude that had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
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took the branches of the palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried out, Hosanna: Blessed [is] he that cometh in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel.
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And Jesus, having found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written,
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Fear not, daughter of Zion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.
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These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him.
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The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, bare witness.