John 12:7-24

7 But Jesus interposed. "Do not blame her," He said, "allow her to have kept it for the time of my preparation for burial.

8 For the poor you always have with you, but you have not me always."

9 Now it became widely known among the Jews that Jesus was there; but they came not only on His account, but also in order to see Lazarus whom He had brought back to life.

10 The High Priests, however, consulted together to put Lazarus also to death,

11 for because of him many of the Jews left them and became believers in Jesus.

12 The next day a great crowd of those who had come to the Festival, hearing that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

13 took branches of the palm trees and went out to meet Him, shouting as they went, "God save him! Blessings on him who comes in the name of the Lord--even on the King of Israel!"

14 And Jesus, having procured a young ass, sat upon it, just as the Scripture says,

15 "Fear not, Daughter of Zion! See, thy King is coming riding on an ass's colt."

16 The meaning of this His disciples did not understand at the time; but after Jesus was glorified they recollected that this was written about Him, and that they had done this to Him.

17 The large number of people, however, who had been present when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and brought him back to life, related what they had witnessed.

18 This was also why the crowd came to meet Him, because they had heard of His having performed that miracle.

19 The result was that the Pharisees said among themselves, "Observe how idle all your efforts are! The world is gone after him!"

20 Now some of those who used to come up to worship at the Festival were Greeks.

21 They came to Philip, of Bethsaida in Galilee, with the request, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus."

22 Philip came and told Andrew: Andrew and Philip told Jesus.

23 His answer was, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

24 In most solemn truth I tell you that unless the grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains what it was--a single grain; but that if it dies, it yields a rich harvest.