John 12:7-17

7 Jesus answered, "Leave her alone. It was right for her to save this perfume for today, the day for me to be prepared for burial.
8 You will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me."
9 A large crowd of Jews heard that Jesus was in Bethany. So they went there to see not only Jesus but Lazarus, whom Jesus raised from the dead.
10 So the leading priests made plans to kill Lazarus, too.
11 Because of Lazarus many of the Jews were leaving them and believing in Jesus.
12 The next day a great crowd who had come to Jerusalem for the Passover Feast heard that Jesus was coming there.
13 So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Jesus, shouting, "Praisen God! God bless the King of Israel!"
14 Jesus found a colt and sat on it. This was as the Scripture says,
15 "Don't be afraid, people of Jerusalem! Your king is coming, sitting on the colt of a donkey."
16 The followers of Jesus did not understand this at first. But after Jesus was raised to glory, they remembered that this had been written about him and that they had done these things to him.
17 There had been many people with Jesus when he raised Lazarus from the dead and told him to come out of the tomb. Now they were telling others about what Jesus did.
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